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Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind

Condorcet·French

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Written in hiding from the Terror, days before his death, Condorcet's last work is a sweeping vision of humanity's advance, confident that knowledge would carry the species toward justice and equality.

No bounds have been fixed to the improvement of the human faculties. The perfectibility of man is absolutely indefinite; and the progress of this perfectibility has no other limit than the duration of the globe upon which nature has placed us.

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