Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Whe…

George Santayana
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. ✨ George Santayana (2011). The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, p.172, MIT Press
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