 The modern literature on progress generally argues that European science, culture, and institutions are the best in the world at the time the author is writing.  But claims or insinuations that Europeans are biologically superior are rarer.  Turgot, as we have seen, states that individual genius occurs as frequently among non-Europeans as among Europeans.  Nor do Mill's claims for European superiority rest on biological arguments (1859, 80).  In other words, the paradigmatic progress narrative shows Europeans setting the standards and then the rest of the world catching up until everyone is a full participant in an enlightened order. 