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Robert Nisbet is Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and is currently a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Study in Washington, D.C. The present article is the concluding section of his forthcoming volume History of the Idea of Progress,to be published by Basic Books.
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Nisbet, R. Progress and providence. Soc 17, 4 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02701541
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