ndling on of these
             formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the
             only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness
             - (Hermann Hesse in Reading in Bed, ed. by Steven Gilbar, 1974)
             This quote suggests that literature is most certainly an eternal fixture, which has been shown by its history of outlasting the temporal events about which it is written. In speaking of a 'childish intoxication with progress', Mr. Hesse suggests that for progress to be effective, it must be informed progress, with
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