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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.

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  1. 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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