28 DEC 2016 by ideonexus
The Staggering Amount of Progress Made in Recent History
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'Millennium' is full of gratitude for the staggering advances of 1,000 years
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One of the most bracing aspects of 'Millennium' is the breadth of factors it covers, from food production to sanitation conditions to the Christian Church Militant to the development of firearms to radical changes in transportation of both people and products.
By Steve Donoghue NOVEMBER 24, 2016
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If the Stars Only Came Out One Night in 1,000 Years
If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.This Emerson quote begs the question: What if we lived on a planet like Venus, where perpetual cloud coverage obscures the skies?
18 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
How Greek Civilization Came Together
The development of objective thinking by the Greeks
appears to have required a number of specific cultural
factors. First was the assembly, where men first learned to
persuade one another by means of rational debate. Second
was a maritime economy that prevented isolation and parochialism.
Third was the existence of a widespread Greekspeaking
world around which travelers and scholars could
wander. Fourth was the existence of an independent merchant
class that could hire its own teachers. Fifth...And it only happened once.