Thoughts Suggested by Mr. Foude's "Progress"

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Thoughts Suggested By Mr. Froude's "Progress", by Charles Dudley WarnerThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Thoughts Suggested By Mr. Froude's "Progress"Author: Charles Dudley WarnerRelease Date: December 6, 2004 [EBook #3121]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MR. FROUDE'S PROGRESS ***Produced by David WidgerTHOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY MR. FROUDE'S"PROGRESS"By Charles Dudley WarnerTo revisit this earth, some ages after their departure from it, is a common wish among men. We frequently hear men saythat they would give so many months or years of their lives in exchange for a less number on the globe one or two or threecenturies from now. Merely to see the world from some remote sphere, like the distant spectator of a play which passesin dumb show, would not suffice. They would like to be of the world again, and enter into its feelings, passions, hopes; tofeel the sweep of its current, and so to comprehend what it has become.I suppose that we all who are thoroughly interested in this world have this desire. There are some select souls who sitapart in calm endurance, waiting to be translated out of a world they are almost tired of patronizing, to whom the wholething seems, doubtless, like a ...