> 
Re comment:- "> Sure, we can find such examples all over the world. The point of this
> discourse, however, was not what ancients thought by a movement in Western
> culture since the age of the Enlightenment bearing direct influence on 19th
> century evolutionary thought impacting us to this very day. 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)."

 

Of course it is of interest. Such data points to the obvious fact that such mythical yearnings for a supposedly perfect past have been present throughout all of history and a satndard part of human nature, not just arbitrarily starting in the age of enlightenment. 

 

Geoff

 		 	   		  
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