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by B1FF_PSUVM
3133 days ago
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If you read for instance Montaigne, they were debating the merits of the ancients and the moderns. Up to the 16th century there was a pervading sense of inferiority from a previous classical golden age. The very idea of historical progress is a modern construct. |
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