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Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

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The tendency to look not to the past but to the future for types of perfection was brought into the world by Christianity. Ancient literature gives few or no hints of a belief that the progress of society is necessarily from worse to better.


Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society (1861), ch. 4, “The Modern History of the Law of Nature.”

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