Raoul Naroll planned to call a book on cultural evolution Painful
Progress. The progressiveness of evolution is apparent in data on
longevity, economic inequality, and so forth. What Naroll intended
to say about pain cannot be known, but he opened and closed The
Moral Order by mentioning the pain of incomprehension. The
author argues that progress causes such pain during periods of
transition but alleviates this and other kinds of pain over the long
term.
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