The old order changeth yielding
place to the new
Amplification: This is
a famous quote from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem 'Morte d'Arthur'. It means
change is life, change is progress, and change is culture and civilization,
while stagnation is the arrest of development and nothing but decay, death and
destruction. Nothing great in this world is static; everything noble is
dynamic. True it is in all walks and spheres of life. Evolution and revolution
is the law of Nature: it is at the root of all progress, all formation and all
development. Time has always been on the move and there are ups and downs,
rises and falls of human civilization, human culture, and there is man's taste
and zest, inclinations and motives, likings and dislikings. Monotony is
distaste; variety is the spice of life, change is life and its zest, its
interest, its meaning. In human institutions rise and fall happen and old order
and discipline, old rules and regulations, old system and process-everything
yields to new and surrenders to new conditions and demands. If there were no
change, our life would be dull, dreary and meaningless. Our life is livable,
romantic and desirable only because of change and alternation, modification and
revision' newness and novelty. And because of this change of taste and zest,
motives and inclinations we have seen kingdoms and democratic state, capitalism
and socialism, nationalism and internationalism. To speak bluntly, the secret
of a nation's strength rests basically on its capacity for change and
readjustment.
Here we should not
forget to note that there have been radical changes and gradual changes in
human history of civilization. In either case of violent or smooth change human
civilization may be beset with dangers and difficulties, odds and disadvantages
but the law of life and Nature continue working; nothing remains in its state.
In short, the old ideas
and old values of life become weakened and disintegrated. With the progress of
time new ideas and new values of life, no matter social, political, cultural,
religious, emerge out of the debris of the old.
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