Page 4 - Ideal of Progress for Humanity

...past is indeed a huge force of

conservation, but of conservation

that is not immobile, but on the

contrary offers itself as material for

change and new realisation; that the

present is the constant change and

new actual realisation which the

past desires and compels; and that

the future is that force of new

realisation not yet actual towards

which the past was moving and for

the sake of which it lived.

- Sri Aurobindo, (CWSA 13: 130)