if Poles can take credit for British culture then Koreans can take credit for Chinese culture...sorry but the Pole's theory is absolutely pseudohistorical. No respectable history professor will ever sign off on the claim that the Industrial Revolution throughout Europe was a unique incomparable experience in world history.
Firstly, the progress of scientific thought was always incremental: Hellenistic Age -> Northumbrian Renaissance ‐> Carolingian Renaissance -> Ottonian Renaissance + Islamic Golden Age influences -> Renaissance of the 12th century + Greek scholar refugees -> Italian Renaissance -> Scientific Revolution. The Islamic world and China also had similar chains of paradigmatic evolution (go read on the scientists of the Song dynasty and the beginning of Song protoindustrial mechanisation) except for the last stage, when the West overtook the rest.
AND in any case, the Industrial Revolution did not spring forth spontaneously from some "Western civilization", but was overwhelmingly the work of 18th century British colonial-/navy-tied merchants and subsequently imported to France, then Belgium, then Germany and then other miserable offshoots (I'm not sure where he got the idea that France was the most backward European nation when Paris was the center of the 18th century Enlightenment, it was certainly better than Poland of all places). Industrialization in continental Europe was so alien that the counter reaction spawned not only Narodniks, Marxism and Anarchism but also massive esoteric cults like Theosophy, Ariosophy, Rosicrucianism which ultimately culminated in Nazism. Western civilization was nothing more than a loosely connected string of intellectuals who used a common Latin language and shared a fragmented and increasingly irrelevant religion. Even a Spaniard or Italian, much less Slavs, revelling in the glory of Britain is like Chinese, Vietnamese and Koreans claiming credit for Meiji Industrialization.
To say that the West has developed some unique thought pattern of improvisation is nonsense, a theory founded essentially on the Sarmatianist "Polish Outer Wall of Christendom" pseudohistory.
oh. now I get it.
