...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middleaged, or young, but, in a condition...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature...

...; here is organic process ; here is what the past unfolded ; here lies evolutionary expectation. " In what we improve, we are never wholly new ; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete" (Burke). We believe that the English Church may still suffice. Only the English Church must be reformed....

...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middleaged, or young, but in a condition...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature...

...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature...

...middleaged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation and progression....wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete."1 This is a majestic conception. But, after all, the practical question at issue is — how...

...excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires. . . . By preserving the method of nature in the conduct...; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete." True, progress in all the arts and sciences requires a certain readiness to experiment with the unknown...

...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a...in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete." If we look below these ideas of prejudice and privilege, time and subordination, for their one animating...

...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a...in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete." If we look below these ideas of prejudice and privilege, time and subordination, for their one animating...

...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a...in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete." If we look below these ideas of prejudice and privilege, time and subordination, for their one animating...

...wisdom, molding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a...perpetual decay, fall, renovation and progression." Notice how Tennyson versifies another form of the same analogy, in one of the poems from which I have...