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In a message dated 11/1/99 3:17:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
brucet@csufresno.edu writes:

> Don't you think that
>  the uniquely Western intellectual dynamism-- the freedom to rely on
>  individual initiative, to adapt quickly to rapidly changing circumstances,
>  to improvise new solutions and tactics unforeseen in rigid, deterministic
>  cosmologies, etc etc-- had a tad bit to do with it?

I don't know about the rest of you, but in my balanced view Bruce Thornton is 
very funny.

GT

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