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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Progress
Environment
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Life

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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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