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From cs4e3ac@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca Tue Nov 21 19:39:40 1989
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From: cs4e3ac@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (hi ho silver)
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Subject: Re: Best Quote Ever
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Here is an article from the Toronto Star about five years ago. It is
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a history of Europe from the Middle Ages to the present, as compiled from
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essays submitted to Anders Henriksson by his freshman classes here at
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McMaster University and at the University of Alberta. Spelling is as
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written, subject to one or two typos (hey, _you_ try typing 70 lines or
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so without making a mistake :-)
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History, as we know, is always bias, because human beings have to be
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studied by other human beings, not by independent observers of another species.
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During the Middle Ages, everybody was middle-aged. Church and state were
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co-operatic. Middle Evil society was made up of monks, lords and surfs.
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After a revival of infantile commerce slowly creeped into Europe,
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merchants appeared. They roamed from town to town exposing themselves and
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organizing big fairies in the countryside. Mideval people were violent.
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Murder during this period was nothing. Everybody killed someone.
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England fought numerously for land in France and ended up winning and
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losing. The Crusades were a series of military expaditions made by
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Christians seeking to free the hold land (the "Home Town" of Christ)
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>from the Islams.
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Finally, Europe caught the Black Death. The bubonic plague is a social
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disease in the sense that it can be transmitted by intercourse and other
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etceteras. It was spread from port to port by inflected rats. The plague
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also helped the emergance of the English language as the national language
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of England, France and Italy.
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The Middle Ages slimpared to a halt. The renasence bolted in from the
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blue. Like reeked with joy. Italy became robust, and more individuals felt
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the value of their human being.
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Man was determine to civilise himself and his brothers, even if heads
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had to roll! It became sheik to be educated. Europe was full of incredable
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churches with great art bulging out their doors. Renaissance merchants were
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beautiful and almost lifelike.
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The Reformnation happened when German nobles resented the idea that their
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tithes were going to Papal France or the Pope thus enriching Catholic
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coiffures. An angry Martin Lutehr nailed 95 theocrats to a church door.
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Theologically, Luthar was into reorientation mutation. Calvinism was the
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most convenient religion since the days of the ancients.
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The Popes, of course, were usually Catholic. Monks went right on seeing
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themselves as worms. The last Jesuit priest died in the 19th century.
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After the refirmation were wars both foreign and infernal. Louis XIV
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became King of the Sun. He gave the people food and artillery. If he didn't
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like someone, he sent them to the gallows to row for the rest of their
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lives.
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The enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire wrote a book called
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Candy that got him into trouble with Rederick the Great. Philosophers
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were unknown yet and the fundamental stake was one of religious toleration
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slightly confused with defeatism.
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The French revolution was accomplished before it happened. The revolution
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evolved through monarchial, republican and tolarian phases until it catapulted
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into Napolean.
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Great Brittian, the USA and other European countrys had demicratic
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leanings. The middle class was tired and needed a rest. The old order could
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see the lid holding down new ideas beginning to shake. Among the goals of
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the chartists were universal suferage and an anal parliament. Voting was
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to be done by ballad.
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A new time zone of national unification roared over the horizon.
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Nationalism aided Itally because nationalism is the growth of an army. Here,
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too, was the new Germany: Loud, bold, vulgar and full of reality.
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Culture fomented from Europe's tip to its top. Wagner was master of
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music and people did not forget his contribution. Other countries had their
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own artists. France had Chekov.
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World War I broke out around 1912-1914. Germany was on one side of France
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and Russia was on the other. At was people get killed and then they
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aren't people any more, but friends. Peace was proclaimed at Versigh, which
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was attended by George Loid, Primal Minister of England. President Wilson
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arrived with 14 pointers.
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In 1937 Lenin revolted Russia. Communism raged among the peasants, and
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the civil war "team colors" were red and white.
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Germany was displaced after WWI. This gave rise to Hitler. Germany
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was morbidly overexcited and unbalanced. Berlin became the decadent
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capital, where all sorts of sexual deprivations were practised. A huge
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Anti-Semantic movement arose.
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Germany invaded Poland, France invaded Belgium and Russia invaded
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everybody. War screeched to and end when a nukuleer explosion was
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dropped on Heroshima. A whole generation had been wipe out ... and
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their forlorne families were left to pick up the peaces.
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According to Fromm, individuation began historically in medieval
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times. This was a period of small childhood. There is increasing
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experience as adolescence experiences its life development. The last stage
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is us.
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--
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Hi Ho Silver (my friends call me silver) | Disclaimer: Okay, I'll disclaim
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(a.k.a. cs4e3ac@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca) | myself. How's that?
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