owlfish: (Temperantia)
S. Worthen ([personal profile] owlfish) wrote in [personal profile] steepholm 2014-03-25 10:58 pm (UTC)

The concept of progress develops in the 15th century, and the word's use in that sense as well.

Presumably Cordorcet contributes something important to the use or promulgation of the concept, but it was certainly widespread in Europe by then.

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