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To: Road Walker who wrote (794)	11/9/2015 9:30:49 AM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Recommended By Road Walker Respond to of 935

Best book I ever read roadwalker.

To: Road Walker who wrote (794)

11/13/2015 10:07:16 AM

From: koan

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Let me know what you think.

Whence cometh the Axemaker's Gift----philosophy, which the Greeks called the love of wisdom-lol?

Burke and Ornstein:

"With the Greek alphabet, humans had for the first time an easy to use "external data storage system" that compensated for the considerable limitations of affecting human memory.

This change in thought process can be seen within a century in the rise in prominence of a way of looking at the world analytically, step-by-step, with the development of the new Greek procedures for acquiring and analyzing knowledge (which they called "love of wisdom," or philo-sophia).