[REBOL] Re: On ordinal and cardinal numbers...
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 7-Jul-2001 11:35
Hi, Ken,
Admirable (and thought-provoking) summary! Thanks!
Ken Anthony wrote:
...
> I believe that how people feel about doing something because
> they've always done it that way is artificial. Today, we do
> not do what we've always done. If we look back at examples,
> they are embarrassing and silly. Look back 100 to 200 years
> and they are even more so. Go back a 1000 and things that
> every child knows today would be incomprehensible to the
> most educated person.
>
...
> It's very understandable that some people would be repelled
> by that. Give it time, in 100 (or 1000) years it will seem
> natural to you.
>
Your remarks reminded me of another quotation:
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it
a superficial appearance of being right, and raises
at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.
But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts
than reason. "
--Thomas Paine
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