those who cannot remember the past

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We've all seen part of this quote many times, but today I finally got to read some of the surrounding context:

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.... [W]hen experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.... This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience."
-- George Santayana (1905)

Wednesday, October 27. 2004
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