Our chief task therefore is to make perpetual progress toward the ideal of divine nature, for each of us is like a little divinity in the City of God PEE, "Monadology," §83 & §85, pp. 223 4; T §147, pp. 215 216).
It was a time of overflowing optimism, of dreams of perpetual progress, moral uplift, and social betterment.
Perpetual progress has been at the heart of western society for the past 150 years or more.
And every city, too, is a mix of what has been and what is – a work in perpetual progress.
The notion of perpetual progress is not only doubtful in itself but is also compromised as a principle of classification because of its value implications.
If summer is life as we wish it were, Newark Airport is life as it really is, a work in perpetual progress.
Exploration, expansion, the promise that a better life was just a long voyage away — all of these helped fuel the sense of historical mission, the assumption of perpetual progress, which shaped and defined the modern age.
He began to be understood in terms of what Milan Kundera called, in another meditation on the culture of small nations, "antimodern modernism" — a personal style that stands outside the status quo of perpetual progress.
But we, who have staked our lives and culture on the notion of perpetual progress, find that hard to accept.
Our lives should be defined by perpetual progress, and we should challenge ourselves to always reach for higher and loftier goals.
Since the identification of PLA2R (M-type phospholipase A2 receptor) as the first human antigenic target in primary membranous nephropathy (MN), perpetual progress has been made in understanding the pathogenesis of this disease.
