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The Renaissance did not put human potential in the future: backwards was forwards, and the highest thing people could imagine being was Rome again.

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  1. Ada Palmer

    Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas

    this is a period in which backwards is forwards, which is to say this is not a period that like us thinks of the future as where potential is and humanity might get better and better over time. The potential of humanity is recapturing Rome.

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