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and heretics, the adventurous and the safe; all of which amounts to saying that there are souls gripped by what is to be and souls gripped by what has been.
Both tendencies need the moderation of common sense. A certain conservatism is needed, because whatever good there is in the future must grow out of the past; civilization is a growing unit. And a certain progressiveness is needed, because without it the past would paralyze us with its dead head. Too much conservatism means stagnation; too much progressiveness means anarchy.
But it is the future-feeling that most needs to be developed. The past is but too strongly intrenched already in the consciousness of
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the world. It is from those million years to come that we should draw our inspiration.
Law is now, and always has been, but the accumulated wisdom of the past. It ought to grasp the future; there should be more legislation for what will be than from what has been.
Education is past-ridden. It should turn more toward taking as its norm the man yet to be than the man as he has been or is.
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