The cat and the cream

The thoughts that I am going to lay before you this evening are, I am afraid, serious thoughts, but they are not in any sense the distilled wisdom of much anxious pondering. They are more like random jottings all related to one central theme, and I hope you will take them in this spirit and forgive me if some of them seem wrong‐headed and none of them profound. I believe that, hidden in what I have to say, there is a message, but what this message is I am not very sure. Perhaps you can see it more clearly. It has something to do with the idea of Progress.

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