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Our forebears 1,000 years ago spawned a rebirth of civilization
Editorial 8/16/99
BY DAVID GERGEN/EDITOR AT LARGE
from USNews
From our modern vantage point, it is hard not to look down upon life a
thousand years ago. C. S. Lewis called it the "snobbery of chronology," a
natural tendency to believe that earlier peoples were shorter, dumber, and
poorer. What could we possibly learn from them about today?
As this special issue of the magazine demonstrates, life was indeed ha |
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