Dryden states the proposition that "mankind is ever the same and
nothing is lost out of nature thougheverthing is altered."

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Request for Question Clarification by techtor-ga on 02 Mar 2004 23:08 PST

How much of a refutation or defense would you require for this? Would
you need online references as well for support?

See Ecclesiastes 1:9 and 1:10, in fact much of the first chapter.  And
the gist of  the book. Tough to say whether Dryden's statement is
supported or disproved by science.  Tough to say, actually, whether
Dryden's statement even can be stated as a question in science. 
Probably not; this seems a problem of definitions, meta-propositions,
and Popper's idea concerning falsifiability.

Certainly Dryden's assertion is within the current of Judeo-Christian
thought, as noted.

I need about 5 paragraphs showing an explaination for example from
novel and stories or plays. movies or tv.