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Quotation from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“all human progress is in a circle; or, to use a more accurate and beautiful figure, in an ascending spiral curve.”
The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter XVII, The Flight of Two Owls (Project Gutenberg #77)
Fleeing on the railway after the Judge's death, Clifford lectures a stranger on progress.
Citation: "all human progress is in a circle; or, to use a more accurate and beautiful figure, in an ascending spiral curve." — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter XVII, The Flight of Two Owls (Project Gutenberg #77). (id the-house-of-the-seven-gables-q7)
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
