"Martin" wrote in message
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> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:19:22 -0000, "John" wrote:
>
>>
>>"Martin" wrote in message
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>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>
>>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.
Ah, right, didn't know that - or perhaps I did but it's been lost in the
mists of my past.
John
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