He has not clearly seen that the distinctive idea of Progress was not conceived in antiquity or in the Middle Ages, or even in the Renaissance period; and when he comes to modern times he fails to bring out clearly the decisive steps of its growth.

And he does not seem to realise that a man might be "progressive" without believing in, or even thinking about, the doctrine of Progress.

Leonardo da Vinci and Berkeley are examples.

In my Ancient Greek Historians (1909) I dwelt on the modern origin of the idea (p.

253 sqq.).