"The case of the general talk of "progress" is, indeed, an extreme one. As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. We meet every ideal of religion, patriotism, beauty, or brute pleasure with the alternative ideal of progress-that is to say, we meet every proposal of getting something that we know about, with an alternative proposal of getting a great deal more of nobody knows what."