The belief in the Progress took land with the idea of growth and advance of knowing, shaping diverse scientific programs throughout centuries XVII and XIX. Thus, to count and to judge with real possibilities and to operate in the world on the basis of projects moved for the hope in a desirable future were a change of deep perspective in the vision of the man and the world. The limitation sense appeared on frequent to the change possibility, of a better future, an utopia. The interlacement of the idea of progress with the history of the utopia (inversion of the look for the past) reflects the Decay of the nature and the aging of the world. For the modern ' ' what if it must carry through it is total different of what it was carried through and therefore the oracle most favorable for the future is in the confutation of passado' '. Modernity propitiated a time of great changes and hopes of a new world.

The knowledge, for example, deeply was extended through the microscope: ' ' in each small one particle of its substance we observe a so great variety of creatures as that one who before we could count in the universe inteiro' '. The atmosphere of the newness if consolidated in ' ' thesis of superioridade' ' of the modern before the old ones, that it estimated that knowing in the Antiquity was partial and not enough for the modern world. This marked one appeals to the future for the attempt of ways not before attemped, corresponding to the limitation of the old ones and the certainty of that models did not exist to decide the problems of the modern, as the Bacon words. ' ' She is necessary to extract the science of the light of the nature and not to try to get it of the darknesses of the Antiquity. Find out detailed opinions from leaders such as Sonya Reines-Djivanides by clicking through.