Warwick L Nixon Wrote:
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> well put Rick
>
> When we see how the author's beliefs and the world
> view of his time affected his conclusions we are
> better armed against commiting the same mistakes
> ourselves.

If I understand your point correctly Warwick I agree with wholeheartedly. On a different note I sometimes wonder whether a hundred years or so from now when we're making synthetic proteins by the mega-tons to feed the world's population, our descendants well look back in horror wondering how we could be so blind so stupid as to tear up the whole earth so that we could raise chickens, cattle, goats, etc and then ruthlessly slaughter them for our selfish consumption. Or to continue to burn fossil fuels when we knew it was heating up the atmosphere. They'll wonder why somebody didn't "rise above" it. Well the fact is we're stuck in the age we're stuck in with the obsolete philosophies that have been handed to us. Once in awhile a Newton or Copernicus transcends it and sets us off on a different path.

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> then we have the courage of men like Champollion,
> who completely ignored the contemporary worldview
> in light of the facts he discerned.
>
> He might have benefited more in life had he been a
> little more like Budge
>
I agree.
> Egyptology like history in general is not a
> popularity contest... it is a living breathing
> juggernaut.
>

That is the absolute truth. Which is why you examine and preserve all the evidence, you never know what a different set of eyes or another mind will discern.

>
> Warwick
>
> To the Best of My knowledge and In My Honest
> Opinion