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For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

Lewis Mumford
Mean, Progress, Accepting What Is
Lewis Mumford (1963). “The highway and the city: essays”

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

Lewis Mumford
Goal, Progress, Limits
"Technics and Civilization" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 8, (sct. 12), 1934.

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

Lewis Mumford
Progress, Cacophony, Wonder
"The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1951.

In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.

Lewis Mumford
Mean, Space, Progress
Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt

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