The 19th Century Prince of Sicily said in the wonderful novel The Leopard, ‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.’
As if putting the Prince’s words into practice, Europe invented the idea of ‘progress’. Progress was a strange thing for a world of binding tradition; a world of foot binding.
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