Well, the 19th century made progress--the first progress after "ages and ages"--colossal progress. In what? Materialities. Prodigious acquisitions were made in things which add to the comfort of many and make life harder for as many more. But the addition to righteousness? Is that discoverable? I think not. The materialities were not invented in the interest of righteousness; that there is more righteousness in the world because of them than there, was before, is hardly demonstrable, I think.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 5》
I quite agree how humiliating the slow progress of man is, but every one has his own pet horror, and this slow progress or even personal annihilation sinks in my mind into insignificance compared with the idea or rather I presume certainty of the sun some day cooling and we all freezing. To think of the progress of millions of years, with every continent swarming with good and enlightened men, all ending in this, and with probably no fresh start until this our planetary system has been again converted into red-hot gas. Sic transit gloria mundi, with a vengeance...英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
For, first, what are Order and Progress? Concerning Progress there is no difficulty, or none which is apparent at first sight. When Progress is spoken of as one of the wants of human society, it may be supposed to mean Improvement. That is a tolerably distinct idea. But what is Order? Sometimes it means more, sometimes less, but hardly ever the whole of what human society needs except improvement. In its narrowest acceptation Order means Obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.英文原著 · 《Representative Government》
Darwin anticipated on. Use of the term. Effect on sterility. Progress among the clergy. Progress of, in Germany. Progress of, in France.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
And so my courtship progresses under aunt Celia's very nose. I say "progresses," but it is impossible to speak with any certainty of courting, for the essence of that gentle craft is hope, rooted in labor and trained by love.英文原著 · 《A Cathedral Courtship》
The French Revolution was condemned by Britain, and the voices raised in its favour in Wales were few. The excesses of the Revolution, and the widespread fear of a Napoleonic invasion, caused a strong reaction against progress. The years immediately after were years of great suffering, but the very suffering prepared the way for the progress of the future, because it made men willing to leave their own districts and to move into the coal and slate districts, where wages were high enough to enable them to live.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
Some folks 'round these parts don't share that progressive-- I say progressive-- sensibility.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
A gay kid is now bullying football players, which I guess, you know, seems like progress, but the wrong kind of progress.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
"Slow progress is lasting progress." Wait a minute. My dad said that.美剧 · 《White Collar》