From What is Progress? movement has no virtue in itself Change is not worth while for its own sake. I am not one of those who love variety for its com is good to day I should like to have it stay that way to-morrow. Most of our calculations in life are dependent upon things For example, it when you got up this morning you had forgotten how to dress, if you had forgotten all about those which you do almost automatically, which you can almost do half awake, you would have to find out what you did yesterday psychologists that if I did not remember who I was yesterday, I should not know who I am to day, and that therefore, my very y depends upon my being able to tally to-day with yesterday. if they do not tally, then I am confused: I do not know who I am, and I have be around and ask somebody to tell me my name and where I came from am not one of those who wish to break connection with the past I am not one of those who wish to change for the mere sake of The only men who do that are the men who want to forget something, the men who filled yesterday with something they would rather ect today, and so go about seeking diversion seeking abstraction in something that will blot out recollection, or seeking to put something into them which will blot out all recollection. Change is not worth while unless it is improvement. If I move out of my present house because I do not like it then I have got to choose a better house, or build a better house, to justify the change. aaste of time to tout that ancient distinction between mere change and improvement Yet there is a class of which statement provides an objective summary of the passage?
1. Change that causes direct benefits for society is a meaningful enterprise
2 improvement occurs when dynamic leaders take risks to bring about change.
3 A nation must abandon highly outdated traditions to create a modern identity
4 Energetic movement is necessary even if the results are sometimes unsuccessful​