These upward movements of society are the yearnings of God's heart lifting his children forward by hope.
Hope and aspiration also furnish the secret springs of civilization.
All things useful and beautiful were once only hopes and ideas.

Free institutions are ideals of liberty, crystallized into word forms.
Tools and instruments are ideals dressed up in iron clothes.

The early forest man dwelt in a cave; ached with cold and moaned with hunger.
Going into the forest to dig roots he found honey hived by the bees and nuts stored up by squirrels against the winter.

Straightway hope suggested to him a larger granary, whence hath come all man's bins and storehouses.

Man plucked a large plum and found it sour, and another plum small, but sweet.