Literary notes about Progression (AI summary)
The word "progression" in literature is used to denote a sequential unfolding or development that can take on diverse meanings across different contexts. In some works it describes the measured, almost scientific advance of numbers or ideas, as seen in mathematically structured sequences [1][2][3] or the orderly advancement of thoughts [4][5]. In other narratives, progression refers to the evolving course of actions or emotions—whether the slow, inevitable downturn of fate [6] or the rhythmic, deliberate movement in physical or musical compositions [7][8]. Additionally, it captures the philosophical and historical sense of gradual emergence and transformation, embodying both the idea of continuity and the dynamic contrast inherent in change [9][10][11].
- Now you can give yourself the answer to your own question: 1, 2, 4, are evidently in Geometrical Progression.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott - Behold once more the confirming Series, 2, 4, 6: is not this an Arithmetical Progression?
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott - A geometrical progression is convergent, when the ratio is smaller than unity; diverging, when it is greater.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - This progression in time determines everything, and is itself determined by nothing else.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - That is to say, the parts of the progression exist only in time, and by means of the synthesis thereof, and are not given antecedently to it.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - But from the day on which I made my first step downward, in dealing falsely by you, I have gone down with a certain, steady, doomed progression.
— from The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens - The rules regulating progression of parts may sometimes be ignored, when extreme contrast of timbre between two adjacent chords is intended.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Correspondence of timbres and the progression of remote parts must be kept in mind: [ Listen ]
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - United Press reporters asked my opinion; I explained that world cycles follow an orderly progression according to a divine plan.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that for ever recedes.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer - I have shown how the ideas of progression and of the indefinite perfectibility of the human race belong to democratic ages.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville
