A short history of the UK Paint Industry — update

Two principles affect, perhaps govern, the moral, intellectual and commercial world: perpetual progress and the necessary limitations placed upon such progress. If progress was ungoverned nothing would be durable — moral values would be in a state of constant flux, books would never become textbooks and commerce would fulminate to no end. The whole of life, as Gentz remarks, would be given over to winds and waves. It is therefore obvious a balance between progress and reaction should forever be in being, by developing what we can and upholding what we ought.