This is the first draft of my project. What ya think? If one were to travel back in time even just 60 years they would find it a consensus, throughout Europe at least, that scientific progress would lead humanity to a more evolved, happier state. Medical advances, market economics, and an unending procession of inventions have indeed produced lives very far removed from the “nasty, brutish, and short” life Hobbes worried would befall those lacking a strict ruler. So far, in fact, have we advanced, that our present lives could perhaps best be described as “easy, civil, and long.” Statistics show that compared with any other time in history at present there are fewer wars, less famine, higher life expectancy, lower infant mortality, and improvement in just about every other numerically verifiable category. In a common
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