Walter Bagehot: “Before history began, there was at least as much progress in the…”

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Before history began, there was at least as much progress in the military art as there has been since.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot asserts that military progress existed even before recorded history.

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Walter Bagehot: “Before history began, there was at least as much progress in the military art as there has been since.”