On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:19:22 -0000, "John" wrote:
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>"Martin" wrote in message
>news:epgim35dhsbg001a3tctfqr4e3v91godbi@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:11:18 -0000, "John" wrote:
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>>>"Tim C." wrote in message
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>>>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:51:45 -0000, "John" wrote:
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>>>>> the human race has progressed to a point where I have a plumbed-in bath
>>>>
>>>> Technology and/or wealth yes. The human race hasn't changed much.
>>>
>>>OK, fair point, but you get the gist. Up to now, as a general thing,
>>>generation has improved on generation - otherwise we wouldn't be watching
>>>Time Team on telly, we would *be* it. But I truly believe things are now
>>>going to go backwards, perhaps for the first time in history.
>>
>> That's more to do with your knowledge of history than anything.
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>I'll be the first one to admit that I'm not an all-seeing oracle and don't
>know everything there is to know about history.
At the end of the Roman Empire things went backwards for centuries.
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Martin
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