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This work is concerned with the quest for progress in daily life throughout the world between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The author studies the demographic expansion that outstripped the production of goods, and the many other factors that brought about the low subsistence level of the majority of people in contrast with the luxurious living standards of the wealthy and privileged few; the effects of famine and plague; the gradual expansion of the towns in a basically agricultural economy.