WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Westward empire cover

Westward empire

Chapter 26: PROLOGUE OF MOTTOES.
By Elias Lyman Magoon
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

History - Other

About This Book

The work presents a broad, interpretive survey of human history that treats progress as a westward-moving drama under providential guidance. It sketches successive cultural ages and traces how literature, art, science, religion, and commerce have shifted emphasis across eras. Rather than detailed biographies, it compiles a compact nomenclature of celebrated figures and landmark events to demonstrate continuity and cumulative improvement. The author highlights recurring patterns of expansion, innovation, and renewal, arguing that major enterprises and population movements have tended to unfold toward the west. The treatment privileges grand outlines and synthesis over granular documentation.

PROLOGUE OF MOTTOES.

"Antiquity deserveth that reverence that men should make a stand thereupon, and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression."—Lord Bacon.

"The faith in the perpetual progression of human nature toward perfection—will, in some shape, always be the creed of virtue."—Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

"The Lutheran clergy have exhibited this spirit of priestcraft under their consistorial polity, and the Calvinist under their presbyterian form of government, as much as the Oriental, Roman, and Anglican bishops; it was manifested as much at Wittemberg, Geneva, and Dort, as at Jerusalem, Rome, and Canterbury."—Christian Charles Josias Bunsen.

"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."—Ephesians iv. 13.