There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to ma

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. You forget, said the Devil, with a chuckle, that I have been evolving too. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law. – John Morley

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