[seacapn]

We forget the old wisdom at our peril.

People forget that even by Greek and Roman times, medicinal remedies and salves and tonics had gone through hundreds of years of development and refinement by countless individuals, and that if something was important enough to be written down by the few scribes available in a society like England of 900’s, it was probably worth remembering.

[manc]

true

[chrisser]

We forget the old wisdom at our peril.

Seems to me this is the heart of Conservatism - the recognition that "the old ways" are old because centuries of experience and heartache had shown them to be the best ways.