It is a similar story with economic growth, the other source of material progress.

另外一个物质进步的动因——经济增长——情况也十分相似。

Instead the modern age has belonged to material progress and its predominant source has been science.

当今时代已经属于物质进步的时代，而它的主要动因是科学。

If the past 300,000 years of history were compressed into a single day, it would not be until the final minute that steady material progress, fuelled by disruptive innovation, took off.

如果将30万年的历史压缩在一天内，直到最后一刻，在颠覆性创新的推动下，稳步的物质进步才得以实现。

He called himself a socialist in that he was moved by a profound dislike of the existing social disorder, but he looks rather to the past than to the future, to things of the spirit rather than to continued material progress.

他称自己为社会主义者，因为他对现存的社会混乱深感厌恶，但他宁愿看过去而不是未来，看精神的东西而不是持续的物质进步。