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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it....This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience.

George Santayana

1863-1952

Life of Reason, vol. 1, chap. 12, p. 284 (1905)

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