The only intelligible sense that progress or advance can have among men, is that we have a definite vision, and that we wish to make the whole world like that vision.

If you like to put it so, the essence of the doctrine is that what we have around us is the mere method and preparation for something that we have to create.

This is not a world, but rather the materials for a world.

God has given us not so much the colours of a picture as the colours of a palette.

But He has also given us a subject, a model, a fixed vision.