If capital isgrowing rapidly, wages may rise; the profit of capital rises incomparably more rapidly. The material position of the worker has improved, but at the cost of his social position. The social gulf that divides him from the capitalist has widened.
Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
TennysonThe final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
alexander graham bellThe ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
Albert SchweitzerModernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
nassim nicholas talebYet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.