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To: Solon who wrote (12357)	4/25/2001 3:03:39 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Would they spend money (evil) to alleviate death and suffering (the GOOD)?? I'm wondering why you call money evil. Money isn't evil, or good. Money, (or, better, the love of money) it is said, is the root of all evil. (Though I would toss envy in there, too.) But money is also the fertilizer of all good. I don't feel evil when I spend money to buy food for my children. Do you?

To: Solon who wrote (12357)	4/25/2001 3:44:10 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't quite understand your criticism, since it was published in a "free thinkers" magazine as an indictment. I will review the rest of your post later, and comment as I am moved......

To: Solon who wrote (12357)	4/25/2001 4:11:25 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Alexandria, Library of the most famous library of classical antiquity. It formed part of the research institute at Alexandria in Egypt that is known as the Museum, or Alexandrian Museum. The Alexandrian museum and library were founded and maintained by the long succession of the Ptolemies in Egypt from the beginning of the 3rd century BC. The library's initial organization was the work of Demetrius Phalereus, who was familiar with the achievements of the library at Athens. Both the museum and the library were organized in faculties, with a president-priest at the head and the salaries of the staff paid by the Egyptian king. A subsidiary “daughter library” was established about 235 BC by Ptolemy III in the Temple of Sarapis, the main museum and library being located in the palace precincts, in the district known as the Brucheium. It is not known how far the ideal of an international library—incorporating not only all Greek literature but also translations into Greek from the other languages of the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and India—was realized. It is certain that the library was in the main Greek; the only translation recorded was the Septuagint. The library's editorial program included the establishment of the Alexandrian canon of Greek poets, the division of works into “books” as they are now known (probably to suit the standard length of rolls), and the gradual introduction of systems of punctuation and accentuation. The compilation of a national bibliography was entrusted to Callimachus. Though now lost, it survived into the Byzantine period as a standard reference work of Greek literature. The museum and library survived for many centuries but were destroyed in the civil war that occurred under the Roman emperor Aurelian in the late 3rd century AD; the “daughter library” was destroyed by Christians in AD 391. britannica.com