> Scholars have searched as far back as biblical times and the fifth century B.C. to find evidence of a general notion of the continuous improvement of human life on earth, and have been hard put to find any. Mind you, we are not talking here about a concept of “better.” All peoples have notions of improvement, of superior/inferior.
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