The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
Source: In 12,000 Religious Quotations, by Frank S. Mead, 1989.
-- William Seward, (May 16 1801-1872), US politician, abolitionist; He was secretary of state from 1861 to 1869; remembered for the purchase of Alaska in 1867--referred to at that time as Seward's Folly.