With the decline of the Greco-Roman realm, scientific progress shifted to the Islamic world.
The sentiments subtly change in tone as the series progresses, shifting from loving farewells to giving thanks to helpful friends, including lawyers, to verbal displays of bravura.
The notion of good health is progressing, shifting towards a people-centred approach to create and preserve good health and well-being rather than preventing and treating diseases.
What is being talked about, he said, is a "a smart, thoughtful way to rapidly, as rapidly as possible, while maintaining progress, shift responsibilities to Afghans," he said.
The book contains an intricate divination system - or the ba gua, comprised of four masculine (yang) and four feminine (yin) elements that can be combined into 64 hexagrams that progress cyclically, shifting from yin to yang and back again - that limns temporal progression.
In 1958, however, came the Great Leap Forward, an effort to speed up progress by shifting rural manpower into manufacturing.
It has done laudable work in trying to standardise out-of-competition testing, educating athletes about its "strict liability" stance and made progress in shifting cultures and attitudes.
They urge "progress in shifting the perception of chimpanzees as frivolous subhumans that are not in danger of extinction to more scientifically accurate characterizations of our closest relatives that stir interest, respect, and conservation efforts".
Even Paul Hawken, one of the most skillful green communicators, told me recently that he doesn't foresee real progress on shifting from non-sustainable energy options etc without a potent jab from nature.
Although China has made progress in shifting bad loans off the banks' balance sheets, there is little sign that the banks themselves have fundamentally changed their behaviour and become rational lenders.Neither side emerges with much credit from this episode.
