Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit s…

Lewis Mumford
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. ✨ Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 8, (sct. 12), 1934.
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