Thursday, July 16, 2020
Progress
H.J. Massingham, "Coke of Norfolk," in A Mirror of England: An Anthology of the Writings of H.J. Massingham (1888-1952) (Hartland: Green Books, 1988), pp. 122-124 (at 124):
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There is an uneasy suspicion abroad to-day that "progress" is "a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." Yet this is too pessimistic: progress does mean something, and what I take it to mean is a sudden longing, in the midst of confusion and tribulation, for the good things, the kind traditions, the old rhythms of life that the age has wantonly thrown away in pursuit of the power and the wealth that turn to dust as soon as in the hand.
