Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Westward Empire, or the Great Drama of Human Progress
Operate for the highest good of the greatest number. Different currents may seem to ?ow from the most diverse sources, and in Opposite directions, but they are all tribu taries to one centralizing channel, wherein ?ows forward forever the accumulating aggregate of human fortunes, under the divine control. A papal decree was once ob tained condemning Galileo's doctrine touching the revolu tion of the earth; but that did not arrest pre-ordained planetary motion, nor prevent all sublunary beings from turning with it. Fortunately the tide of improvement has already rolled onward so far, and with such increased might, that Oxford is just as impotent to stay the amel iorating progress of mankind as was the Vatican; and both must advance with a diviner momentum, or be oat stripped by a younger competitor in the heavenly course.
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