Tham khảo tài liệu 'the world does not progress, it merely changes.', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | The world does not progress it merely changes. Do you agree this view At first hearing this seems a strange almost an absurd saying. What No progress Why compare the world today with what it was in antiquity in the middle Ages or even only two hundred years ago. There is no comparison. Have we not now inventions and conveniences that were never dreamt of two centuries ago What about our railway and steam-driven machinery our steamships and submarines our aeroplanes our electric light and power our telegraph telephone radio and broadcasting our aseptic surgery and advanced medical science our other scientific discoveries and inventions and hundreds of other signs of progress Two hundred years ago these things were unknown. Had not the world progressed far beyond the wildest dreams possible to our ancestors No doubt all this and more is true. But this does not disprove this saying. The world has certainly progressed in knowledge but has it progressed in wisdom We know far more than our forefathers did but do we use greater knowledge to any wiser ends That is to be doubted. As Tenyson said Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. Look at the world as it is today. It is a hundred years since Tennyson dreamt of The Parliament of Man the Federation of the World . It is still only a dream. Mankind has not had the wisdom to learn the elementary lesson of cooperation on a world scale. Mankind is still divided up into warring tribes like their barbarian ancestors. The spirit of a narrow nationalism still divides men and .
