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Most theories of progress assume that salutary change begins with the discoveries and perceptions of individuals, aided perhaps by the chance pricks of circumstance, be it Newton’s falling apple or Archimedes’s spilling bath-water. Few Realists disputed this. Where they differed was in their assessment of the obstacles that impeded the spread and general acceptance of these perceptions.
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Larkin, M. (1977). Society versus the Individual. In: Man and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01661-7_15
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