>As such,
>bringing in facts which while interesting have no direct bearing on recent
>intellectual history is of no benefit (except possibly to 'needs' of
>submitters).

So, the references by the philosophers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment, and especially the Primitivists, to the "Golden Age" of Greece and Rome, should be stricken from the historical record. Makes it much easier to blame them for everything.