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The idea of progress is a recent invention: Francis Bacon created it in the early seventeenth century, and no earlier society had it.
Drawn from what Ada Palmer said
CitesFrancis Bacon
What Ada Palmer actually said
- Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
Then in the early seventeenth century, Francis Bacon invented progress.
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↗On Progress and Historical Changeexurbe.com
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