Since the identification of PLA2R (M-type phospholipase A2 receptor) as the first human antigenic target in primary membranous nephropathy (MN), perpetual progress has been made in understanding the pathogenesis of this disease.
It was in France, in fact, that the idea of modernism as perpetual progress and invention came to a halt, despite the fact that curators and historians -- and in particular the Museum of Modern Art -- insisted on a more dynamic reading for decades.
The notion of perpetual progress is not only doubtful in itself but is also compromised as a principle of classification because of its value implications.
In my article I noted that in World War I the "idea of modernism as perpetual progress and invention came to a halt," not marvelous painting and sculpture, a category into which all the works Mr. Rubin mentioned would fit.
He began to be understood in terms of what Milan Kundera called, in another meditation on the culture of small nations, "antimodern modernism" — a personal style that stands outside the status quo of perpetual progress.
It was a time of overflowing optimism, of dreams of perpetual progress, moral uplift, and social betterment.
Our chief task therefore is to make perpetual progress toward the ideal of divine nature, for each of us is like a little divinity in the City of God PEE, "Monadology," §83 & §85, pp. 223 4; T §147, pp. 215 216).
But we, who have staked our lives and culture on the notion of perpetual progress, find that hard to accept.
