A small green seedling pushes through cracked orange earth.

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Paracelsus · 1835

Robert Browning

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Progress, the speaker says, is the basic law of life, because humanity is still unfinished. People have not yet become what humankind might be, so growth and improvement are not optional extras but the ongoing condition of being human.

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