During the last couple of hundred years, however, as the rate of social change accelerated and we were reprogrammed to believe in progress, everyone acquired a sporting interest in what might be just over the horizon.
I don't know how everyone else acquires their faith or lack of!
Everyone who acquires a bit of health-related insight and skill power can say thanks by paying it forward.
The dancer Erick Montes, onstage throughout, remained naked while everyone else acquired first some black garments, later some white ones.
The emphasis is now very much on a "lifelong learning society", to enable everyone to acquire new skills even after they have left school.
Banks declined to offer small, simple lines of credit to poor and blue-collar customers, leaving them to payday lenders, while they pushed high-limit, high-interest credit cards on everyone and acquired hundreds of billions in subprime debt.
"If children's books were motorcars," he wrote, "I would make Minis - accessible, popular and lively ways for everyone to acquire the motoring (reading) habit". Hill was born in Manitoba, Canada, and grew up in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where his father was a train driver.
Perspective-taking is an invaluable skill for anybody with a product, service, or idea to sell or anyone who will need at any point to sell themselves - in other words, an invaluable skill for everyone to acquire!
And once again this has to do with the fact that for decades many people didn't have traditional landlines, and with the price of mobile handsets coming down it is a device nearly everyone is acquiring.
