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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (38758)	11/26/2001 12:37:10 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

we are in the debt of those who held Europe together after the ravages of barbaric tribes and the depradations of the Vikings... rediscovered manuscripts and Arabic commentaries, and treated with respect Persians such as Avicenna, Jews such as Maimonides, and Arabs such as Al- Farabi They were a minority at that time. Widespread respect for learning (as against religiously enforced reverence or barbaric disdain) only came when learning itself was more than the preserve of a very few... if Aquinas shone then, how much brighter could he have been 200 years later, in Italy? or 400 years later, in Britain? I like history the more as it becomes more ancient - but I try not to glamorise it, or the prevailing attitudes.