unprayed-for

Updated: May 2, 2025

Since the beings, however, in which these values would reside, would, by hypothesis, know nothing of one another, and since the betterment would take place unprayed-for and unnoticed, it could hardly be called a progress; and certainly not a progress in man, since man, without the ideal continuity given by memory and reason, would have no moral being.

George Santayana - The Life of Reason : The Phases of Human Progress