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Thomas Babington Macaulay – Southey Thomas Babington Macaulay Southey article

On what principle is it, that when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Southey, The Edinburgh Review, vol. 50, no. 100, 1830, pp. 565, p. 565