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By conducting a horizontal and vertical review of texts from different periods and sequences in Western history, this book strives to find multiple perspectives for understanding the texts, and explores how the "progress narrative" formed, implicitly or explicitly, "before modernity." This book is directly inspired by reality. After all, we living in "postmodernity" are still somewhat inspired by the promise of "progress", and this promise does not come directly from classical China. Exploring the origins of the stories and concepts of "progress" in the West is not only relevant to knowledge, but also to our daily lives. Texts and concepts are not the products of industrial lathes, nor are they the food grown on the land, but the products of thinking - the direct soil where thinking phenomena occur is the history of thinking itself. Out of respect for this basic reality, the tracking of "progress" in this book will be based on grasping the spiritual context and spiritual motivations on which this narrative and conceptual system is generated.