“The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.”

Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter X, The Modern World, p. 278

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American historian and economist 1919–2005

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