Our habitual instructors, our ordinary conversation, our inevitable and ineradicable prejudices tend to make us think that 'Progress' is the normal fact in human society, the fact which we should expect to see, the fact which we should be surprised if we did not see.
Bagehot critiques the common belief in societal progress, suggesting it is a product of ingrained biases rather than an objective reality.
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