Re:Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyc...
by ahaspel on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @02:58PM
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No doubt. That’s one of the reasons I find the 1911 edition interesting — the authors have more license to express their own opinions, which naturally reflect those current at the time.
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Re:Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyc...
by genghisjahn on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:12PM
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"Not, of course, that there is any magic about the past. People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes. They will not flatter us in the errors we are already committing; and their own errors, being now open and palpable, will not endanger us."
On Reading Old Books C. S. Lewis
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