Certainly when I read Condorcet's Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind as an undergraduate, we were told that this eighteenth century text was the first to propose the idea of 'progress' as improvement, things getting better (rather than just progressing, moving on).
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Date: 2014-03-25 06:16 pm (UTC)