Progress

Definition: Progress As used herein, Progress has two different meanings - A. Progress as a fact In one sense, Progress refers to a series of human triumphs that successfully turned what had been unchangeable Conditions into solvable Problems and then Solved them. B. Progress as an idea In a different sense, Progress refers to the idea of Progress which may simply be an Opinion that Progress has happened in an Aspect of human history or is an aspiration or expectation that Progress will happen with regard to an Aspect. Commentary In the first sense of Progress, Polio, for example, was a Condition to which the human race was susceptible; many caught, suffered, were crippled, and/or died from prior to 1952. Then the Salk vaccine was invented that effectively prevented Polio. Progress, as a matter of fact, was made in the case of Polio. In the second sense of Progress, visitors to the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, for example, had a strong sense of Progress. In their Opinion, Progress had been made and was being made. They expected it to continue to happen. Personally, they aspired to more of it. Why? Because most adults alive in 1904 lived in Circumstances or could remember them when there were no indoor bathroom facilities, electric lights, automobiles, telephones, and so on. Progress in a material sense was overwhelmingly evident to everyone attending the Fair in 1904. The idea of Progress made perfect sense.