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)