# CH07.P009

We need not debate about the mere words evolution or progress: personally I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form. It implies that we are trying to shape the world in a particular image; to make it something that we see already in our minds. Evolution is a metaphor from mere automatic unrolling. Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road--very likely the wrong road. But reform is a metaphor for reasonable and determined men: it means that we see a certain thing out of shape and we mean to put it into shape. And we know what shape.

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, edition pg16769-r1. https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH07.P009/

## Annotations

- [Darwin also denied an inevitable upward march](https://glosses.org/a/a_tz4by6wq/)
- [An unrolled scroll supplies no moral destination](https://glosses.org/a/a_52ih6dzy/)