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475. Humanities; Learning; Progress;
Science
"There is no part of history so generally useful as that which
relates the progress of the human mind, the gradual improvement
of reason, the successive advances of science, the vicissitudes
of learning and ignorance, which are the light and darkness of
thinking beings, the extinction and resuscitation of arts, and
the revolutions of the intellectual world. If accounts of
battles and invasions are peculiarly the business of princes, the
useful or elegant arts are not to be neglected; those who have
kingdoms to govern have understandings to cultivate."
Johnson: Rasselas [Imlac]
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