He who laughs at the human race deserves better of it than he who mourns for it, for the former leaves it some good hopes of improvement, while the latter stupidly weeps over what he has given up all hopes of mending.—Seneca

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THE notion of human progress is one of the most enduring ideas in Western thought. nerdle has long held that human societies can improve, and that this improvement reveals a basic spiritual or moral truth about the human condition. In the past, this belief could be found in religious texts octordle, but more recently it has been supported by science and technology.