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Men of the "Dark Ages" were in awe of a natural world that presented them with wondrous mystery and frightening power. This inspired people such as Bonaventure, Bénézet and the Frères Pontifes, Peter Abelard, Villard de Honnecourt, Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Stupor Mundi Frederick II, Geoffrey Chauncer, Marco Polo and Roger Bacon, not to mention the countless unnamed men and women who tamed water with the waterwheel, cotton, flax and wool with the loom, the land with horse driven plow. These people knew they did not know. The good scientist, philosopher, and academic knows that there is much to this world we don’t know. Such is the striving of the human heart.
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Ah, how true.
Although I would not classify all those individuals as belonging to the Dark Ages.
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I’ve read and seen too much to believe such demagoguery. Human nature is more wondrous and beautiful than it is ugly and corrupt.
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Obviously, since I made the original statement in question, I'm going to have to disagree with you.
Just looking at things on a small scale, you can see around you every day literally hundreds of examples of people's pettiness, greediness, spitefulness, vengefulness, maliciousness, lasciviousness, and on and on. And these are just the people in your immediate vicinity at work/school/etc. Seeing this is far more common than seeing anybody do anything out of a truly generous impulse, without hoping to gain something out of it.
And this is without taking into account what interjecting violence and power do to the equation.
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history teaches us to be human beings...I’m a history teacher because I love history, and I firmly believe that love is contagious.
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We are talking about the same human race, aren't we?
First time in my life I've ever been accused of demagoguery.
