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Re: History
Nick Corduan (nickc@IQUEST.NET)
Tue, 29 Aug 1995 17:10:05 -0500
Richard,
> I am the source and the original sentence read:
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> "Should not a People's history and culture be in their own hands?"
My apologies for both the mis-quote and the mis-attribution of the quote.
> Facts are not facts .... truth is not truth. Facts and truth change
> frequently - even in sciences considerably "harder" than
I'm trying not to sound or be belligerent -- please believe me!!!!! -- but
could you give me one example of a truth or a fact that has changed?
> anthro/archeo. There are no absolutes, Nick.
If there are no absolutes, what is the point of science? If there are no
absolutes than nothing can be learned . . . nothing can be predicted . . .
nothing can BE.
> Well, I never said that history belonged to anyone ... only that the
> people involved have a right to create it if they wish, and at the
> very least participate in creating it if so desired.
I'm not *entirel* certain I know what you mean, but I think I do. If so, then
I am basically in agreement. To leave out the people who were involved in an
event in your study or report of that event is folly.
Nick---
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Nick Corduan "...there is as much dignity in tilling
at a field as in writing a poem."
(nickc@iquest.net) --Booker T. Washington
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