“Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.” -- Will and Ariel Durant
No man, however brilliant...
How much less ignorant zealots.
“Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.” -- Will and Ariel Durant
No man, however brilliant...
How much less ignorant zealots. So, following your brilliant quote, progress over the last century should have been infinitesinal, the nuclear age never happened, the human genome never mapped, penicillin never discoved, a million ideas and dreams never realized, beause they all certainly lead to societal upheaval. Oh so many ideas, not worth a gnat versus traditionalism. Let's use the bible as our guide, is that traditional enough for you? Where petty kings raided their neighbors, killing thousands, so they could come back to their polygamist families.
Or maybe we should go back to Roman tradition, after all it is the root of out republic. I especially look forward to the reinstatement of slavery, what a great idea.
Pshaw, quoting simplistic bunk raises your standing not a twit.