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Treating history as a march of progress makes whole eras and regions disappear, dismissed for having failed to advance it.
Drawn from what Ada Palmer said
What Ada Palmer actually said
- Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
In such a history whole eras can be dismissed as unworthy of study for failing to forward progress (The Middle Ages did great stuff, guys!) while other eras can be disproportionately celebrated for advancing it (The Renaissance did a lot of dumb stuff too!).
Where this was said
↗On Progress and Historical Changeexurbe.com
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