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The writer of the Letter to the Hebrews has been called "the Apostle of Progress" (6:1a). Robert Browning wrote:
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.
(Rabbi Ben Ezra, Stanza 1)
and
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts'; God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
(A Death in the Desert, Stanza 30)
When Spain was engaged in the conquest of the then-known world, she held both sides of the Mediterranean and the Strait of Gibraltar. On her national coins she had engraved the pillars of Hercules and wrapped around them was a logo in Latin: Ne plus ultra ("No more beyond"). But a courageous and entrepreneurial voyager sailed out into the West beyond Gibraltar and discovered a new world. Spain then struck off the old logo and substituted Plus ultra ("More beyond").
-- Macleod
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.
(Rabbi Ben Ezra, Stanza 1)
and
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts'; God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
(A Death in the Desert, Stanza 30)
When Spain was engaged in the conquest of the then-known world, she held both sides of the Mediterranean and the Strait of Gibraltar. On her national coins she had engraved the pillars of Hercules and wrapped around them was a logo in Latin: Ne plus ultra ("No more beyond"). But a courageous and entrepreneurial voyager sailed out into the West beyond Gibraltar and discovered a new world. Spain then struck off the old logo and substituted Plus ultra ("More beyond").
-- Macleod
