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THE necessity of considering a number of controversial topics can be avoided by omitting to define the term progress, but it is generally agreed that progress, like degeneration, involves change, and while progress leads upward from a starting point, degeneration takes a downward course.
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The Progress of Man*. Nature 138, 188–189 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138188a0
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