| levellerman 2004-09-28, 6:49 am |
| Kevin Croxen <klcroxen@ls01.fas.harvard.edu> wrote in message > > Why does that > Agreed. Consider the lengthy discussion of the races, in particular of the
quote:
> so-called "Great White Race", and its contribution to civilization, in
> such standard high-school texts of the WWI era and later as James Henry
> Breasted's _Ancient Times_ , a text whose 1933 revised edition continued
> in use in US classrooms, unchallenged, until the early 1970s.
>
> Of course, you can't say anything of this sort today.
Hmm.. yes you still can if are not state paid academics and
consequently dependent on being politically corect to get your money
for living.
see a recent book
Charles Murray " Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in
the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 "
As it happnens when you do a statistical analysis of the people who
have achieved things of significant artistic and scientific worth in
mankind history (4002 cases ) they turn out to be 97 per cent male
Europeans and North Americans.
Lev
When the Zulu's produce a Tolstoy I will read him.
S.Bellow ( Nobel 1973 for Literature )
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