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32. We improve things.
Not only do we invent new things, we improve existing things.
Progess consists of both invention and improvement.
We strive to improve our culture, including our values, our technology, our knowledge and our institutions.
Words from Others on this Topic
The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.
G. K. Chesterton, 1902, from the book The Defendant
Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.
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