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Several attempts to institutionalize a tradition of criticism which I think is the the the key to rapid progress in the sense that we think of a progress discernible on the time schedule and lifetime and also error correction so that regression is less likely that happened several times and failed every time except once in the European enlightenment of the 17th 18th century