Humanity has ever advanced, urged by instincts and necessities implanted by God,--thwarted sometimes by obstacles, causing it for a time, a moment only in the immensity of ages, to deviate from its true line, or seem to retreat, but still ever onward.
Sumner expresses the belief that humanity is driven forward by divine instincts despite temporary setbacks.
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