I take it, Forge, that you are unfamiliar with the axiom 'those who do not remember the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them'? Were it not for history, every generation would have to reinvent the metaphorical wheel, and civilization would never progress. The progress of civilization, like that of science, consists of standing on the shoulders of those who came before us.
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Date: 2005-05-26 02:19 am (UTC)