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To: D. Long who wrote (9893)	5/26/1999 2:49:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

Goodnight, Derek...How did civilization develop? When there was sufficient wealth that the ceremonial function of culture became much more important than the exigent aspect, men began building temples to their gods, palaces for their kings, and filled them both with art and ritual...and then began to combine art and the record of ritual in hieroglyphs...and began to develop new techniques for building, surveying, and keeping accounts...and so on in an indefinite ramification, imposing human values over the face of the earth....