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Jason Crawford — The Roots of Progress (EP.162)

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The Evolution of Prostitution

The idea of progress is more the exception rather than the rule in history. It was really only in the modern era, by which I mean 15, 16 hundreds on, that we even really had anything like the modern idea of progress. Francis Bacon and his contemporaries who talked about this pointed out some of the instances of progress that had come around in his day or in recent decades.

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