1000 BC hell, I’d wager that if a person born 150 years ago were to miraculously appear among us he’d make most of the public school educated in this country seem more fit for a primate exhibit in a zoo than voters in a self governing representative republic.
Mrs. Lurkin has letters written by one of her ancestors during the Civil War. Mind you, this was a young man who had been raised on a farm, but his diction, grammer and pensmanship is superior to that of most of today’s college students.