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Scritto da: Mattia
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> Perché progressisti?

In riferimento a queste due frasi, che ho letto di recente una dopo l'altra mentre mi occupavo di una cosa a prima vista non collegata, che chiariscono schiettamente molte cose.

«As the progress of civilization is to destroy local usages and laws, to break down distinctions both of place and rank, and to fuse large bodies of men into an uniform and compact whole; so the progress of language is to substitute one polished idiom in the place of numerous uncultivated dialects.»
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages, Oxford 1835, p. 50.

«The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.»
Herbert Spencer, Social Statics or The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified and the First of Them Developed.