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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456510" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Progress</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Master stood upon the mount, and taught. <br>He saw a fire in his disciples’ eyes; <br>‘The old law’, they said, ‘is wholly come to naught! <br> Behold the new world rise!’ <br> <br>‘Was it’, the Lord then said, ‘with scorn ye saw <br>The old law observed by Scribes and Pharisees? <br>I say unto you, see ye keep that law <br> More faithfully than these! <br> <br>‘Too hasty heads for ordering worlds, alas! <br>Think not that I to annul the law have will’d; <br>No jot, no tittle from the law shall pass, <br> Till all hath been fulfill’d.’ <br> <br>So Christ said eighteen hundred years ago. <br>And what then shall be said to those to-day, <br>Who cry aloud to lay the old world low <br> To clear the new world’s way? <br> <br>‘Religious fervours! ardour misapplied! <br>Hence, hence,’ they cry, ’ye do but keep man blind! <br>But keep him self-immersed, preoccupied, <br> And lame the active mind!’ <br> <br>Ah! from the old world let some one answer give: <br>‘Scorn ye this world, their tears, their inward cares? <br>I say unto you, see that your souls live <br> A deeper life than theirs! <br> <br>‘Say ye: The spirit of man has found new roads, <br>And we must leave the old faiths, and walk therein?— <br>Leave then the Cross as ye have left carved gods, <br> But guard the fire within! <br> <br>‘Bright, else, and fast the stream of life may roll, <br>And no man may the other’s hurt behold; <br>Yet each will have one anguish—his own soul <br> Which perishes of cold.’ <br> <br>Here let that voice make end; then let a strain, <br>From a far lonelier distance, like the wind <br>Be heard, floating through heaven, and fill again <br> These men’s profoundest mind: <br> <br>‘Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye <br>For ever doth accompany mankind, <br>Hath looked on no religion scornfully <br> That men did ever find. <br> <br>‘Which has not taught weak wills how much they can? <br>Which has not fall’n on the dry heart like rain? <br>Which has not cried to sunk, self-weary man: <br> Thou must be born again! <br> <br>‘Children of men! not that your age excel <br>In pride of life the ages of your sires, <br>But that you think clear, feel deep, bear fruit well, <br> The Friend of man desires.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a><div class=q>
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He saw a fire in his disciples’ eyes; 
‘The old law’, they said, ‘is wholly come to naught! 
 Behold the new world rise!’ 
 
‘Was it’, the Lord then said, ‘with scorn ye saw 
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