Abstract
THE history of the literary quarrel which was waged in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries over the relative excellence of the ancient and the modern cultures has been extensively investigated, especially by the French.' In comparison but little systematic attention has been given to a question which was being formulated during the controversy between Ancients and Moderns, and which survived as a subject of critical speculation after the earlier dispute had subsided-the question of progress in literature and the fine arts.
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