Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

He who moves not forward goes backward!
A capital saying!

He who moves not forward goes backward!
A capital saying!

Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.

Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation

From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature's text;
And embryo good, to read more

From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature's text;
And embryo good, to reach full stature,
Absorbs the evil in its nature.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a
bigger body, more awful, more reverent read more

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a
bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has
had before.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution read more

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and
dissolution.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward, who would keep read more

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of
truth.