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Claude Levi-Strauss on the Richness of the Past

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Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race....

By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Claude Levi-Strauss, 1955, Tristes Tropiques.
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