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The American belief has long been that each generation will have a better life economically, technologically, socially, personally than the previous one. But this idea of linear historical progress did not exist in most other cultures. All ancient cultures Chinese, Babylonian, Hindu, Greek, and Roman had different views. Some saw history as cyclical, and others saw history as a slow decline from past golden ages. The idea that history was moving in the direction of continual progress and improvement in the human condition simply did not exist. Then, however, came Christianity. As Robert Nisbet writes in his book History of the Idea of Progress, Christian thinkers gave “to the idea of progress a large and devoted following in the West and a sheer power that the idea could not have otherwise [in the absence of Christian beliefs] acquired.” The Greeks thought that the accumulation of human knowledge led to a mild, temporary improvement in the human condition but only between confl

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