When the fixed standard is investigated, it is found to depend on something else, and this on something else again in an infinite regress.
"John Dewey's logical theory"
Delton Thomas Howard
Two thousand years the sanctuary's veil Has now been rent asunder, shewing all That, to the patient and unsandall'd foot, Egress and regress freely are allowed Through that most glorious temple, where abstract, And long a stranger to the vulgar eye, Thought held her silent rule, and mission'd forth Her sealed and unquestion'd messengers.
"Vignettes in Verse"
Matilda Betham
What one age or country is alive to, another may be dead to; nor can we pretend that here all is progress and no regress, unless we are prepared to say that in no respect have we anything to learn from the past.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell