Note 131 — CONCLUDING REMARKS
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“The favourite idea of classical antiquity was not the idea of progress, but the idea of a cycle of changes in which departure from the original unity and return to it, or, as we should say, differentiation and integration, are not united, but follow each other. This idea seems to be adopted even by Aristotle.”—Caird’s “Evolution of Religion,” vol. i., p. 21.