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Read & copy the quotation
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.”
- Source
- The Life of Reason
- Date
- 1905
Meaning of “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on…”
Change by itself is not improvement; progress requires preserving useful lessons and achievements while moving beyond what no longer works.
Where does it come from?
The Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense; the sentence follows Santayana’s discussion of memory and historical learning.
