“Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.”
Quotes by Edward Bellamy
“And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?”
“Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?”
Edward BellamyEdward Bellamy was an influential American author, journalist, and political activist, best known for his groundbreaking utopian novel, Looking Backward. Published in 1888, the book envisioned a futur...