Carrol Cox wrote:
> Here is a famous brief account of change in the modern relations and
> thought. Does it in any way resemble Eliot's various comments on modern
> culture in either his prose works or his poems?
>
> Comments?
>
> All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable
> prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new formed ones become
> antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all
> that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober
> senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind'.
>
> Carrol
>
And let thy motto be, proud and serene,
Still as the years pass by, the word "Progress!"
TSE
Regards,
Rick Parker
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