It prevails still with many, who have not received the Law of Human Progress, teaching that all revolutions and changes are but links in the chain of development, or, it may be, turns in the grand spiral, by which the unknown infinite Future is connected with the Past.
Sumner discusses the prevailing belief that revolutions are part of a continuous development of humanity.
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