Kitap 5
Hence is our age unable to look back
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On what has gone before, except where reason
Tillings of fields, walls, laws, and arms, and roads,
Dress and the like, all prizes, all delights
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Of finer life, poems, pictures, chiselled shapes
Of polished sculptures- all these arts were learned
By practice and the mind's experience,
As men walked forward step by eager step.
Thus time draws forward each and everything
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Little by little into the midst of men,
And reason uplifts it to the shores of light.
For one thing after other did men see
Grow clear by intellect, till with their arts
They've now achieved the supreme pinnacle.
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