As I'd said, the human condition stopped advancing for longer than science did. Advances in science started up again by 1600, maybe earlier (the history of scie

As I'd said, the human condition stopped advancing for longer than science did. Advances in science started up again by 1600, maybe earlier (the history of science isn't one of my specialties -- Copernicus and Bacon were late 1500s, right?), while the human condition remained stagnant for more than a century longer.