> “Last and First Men” is not progressive
strange thing to claim if you have read the book when there's a clear trending line in a specific dimension. what its not is monotonic.
strange thing to claim if you have read the book when there's a clear trending line in a specific dimension. what its not is monotonic.
It was only after the XVI century (when they still debated if the ancients or moderns were greater) that it acquired its present quasi-religious meaning, because on a short-term scale "historical progress" meant improvements in living conditions.