The twentieth century, however, was exceptionally hard on prophets of inevitable progress in human relations. (firstthings.com)
As to history, small comfort can be elicited from withered theories about inevitable progress or from revolutionary promises of brave new worlds. (religion-online.org)
There was the fear both of opening a Pandora's box of inevitable progress uncontrolled by man - and by extension the Church - and of the worship of any form of ineluctable progress. (faith.org.uk)