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Retrogression in time, therefore, is frequently not only permissible but necessary.
That has always been the way. This Psalmist is no exception to the devout souls of his time. For though, as I have said, externalisms and ritualisms filled a place then, that it is an anachronism and a retrogression that they should be supposed to fill now, still beneath all these there lay this one ancient, permanent relation, the relation of trust.
All that education has done for us is to hold the savage in check for a time. He is still there. Spiritually humanity's record is one of retrogression." Luncheon over, Paul accompanied Thessaly and Bassett to the latticed gate in the high monastic wall which concealed his house from the road. They walked away together and he stood for a time gazing after them, then returned and went to his study.
In order to think correctly it is necessary to consider the whole of numeration, computation, and all mathematical processes whatsoever as the division of the unit into its component parts and the establishment of relations between these parts. The progression and retrogression of numbers in groups expressed by the multiplication table gives rise to what may be termed "numerical conjunctions."
I see some who, on attaining a certain height, cease to go up and even lose ground, although moving their legs forward with all the nimbleness of which they are capable. The more they struggle upwards, the faster they come down. This drifting, which neutralizes the distance covered and even converts it into a retrogression, is easily explained.
Civilization against barbarism, freedom against oppression, education against ignorance, progress against retrogression, the West against the East, the United States against Spain.
Sir Charles might well experience shame for this retrogression of one of his own class, the broken obligations of nobility; the traditions shattered. But he thanked John Steele in an old-fashioned, courtly way for what he had once done for his niece whose life he had saved.
The most difficult branches of scientific study, will become less formidable to the children of those who have been able to distinguish themselves in such branches. In other respects, some temporary retrogression is to be looked for. Just so certainly as Japan has attempted that which is above the normal limit of her powers, so certainly must she fall back to that limit, or, rather, below it.
But what is the importance of this instability of which, however, complaints begin to be heard if it is established, as we believe it is, that progress towards a better state of things has been continuous through all these changes, without any notable retrogression? There is no need to explain here in detail the different transitory systems which have been put into practice.
But besides the series, coherence and dependence of the several parts of the book, precluding such retrogression, this interpretation overthrows the scriptural distinction between the militant and triumphant state of the church.
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