Irving Finkel: belief

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…There are so many questions I want to ask you. What wisdom do you think the people from whom these artifacts came had that we, the modern-day humans, may have lost or lost in part or in whole? It’s often, as you’ve spoken about, we see the ancient peoples as lesser, dumber, more primitive. And you’ve spoken about how they are basically the same. I think if you put them on a bus all wearing the same clothes, you wouldn’t know. That’s my feeling. But there is some… I’m sure there’s some greater wisdom they had about certain things, as we have greater wisdom about others. Thanks to Einstein, we’ve figured out the curvature of space-time.…

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