Rob Schaap wrote:
> > ... high water mark of belief in Progress. By and large the past two
> centuries
> >have seen the reaction, and confidence in human Progress -- technological,
> >political, humanistic, and moral -- fell out of intellectual favor.
>
> I suspect an awful lot of that happened as a consequence of WW1, doncha
> reckon?
WWI had the opposite effect as well. It produced a greater belief in economic
planning, for example.
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