"Millennial" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... our advantages and disadvantages. The existence of art has by no means implied, as Ruskin imagined, with his teleological optimism and tendency to believe in Eden and banishment from Eden, that people once lived in a kind of millennium; it merely shows that, however far from millennial their condition, there was stability enough to produce certain alleviations, and notably the alleviations without which art cannot exist, and the ...
— Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life • Vernon Lee
... remote destinies of the race and name immense periods of time. It did not occur to him to consider that our destinies are bound up with those of the solar system, and that it is useless to operate with millennial periods of progress unless you are assured of a corresponding stability in ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
... the dark places would brighten! How the mists would roll up and away! How the earth would laugh out in her gladness To hail the millennial day! ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various |
