Begone, thy filthy mob! (was Benton and Kinman)

["Tim Williams" <tijawi@hotmail.com>]

> I'd like to think, Tim, that you'd be one of those standing before
> the door to reproach the mob.  And ask them to prove that their
> views are in any wise so much better that the remarkable and
> still entirely useful old edifice should be destroyed.


You are correct, Mr Philidor.  I would grab my trusty gladius, and instantly 
rush to the defense of the Temple!  I would stand shoulder-to-shoulder with 
the trembling Priestess of Isis and proclaim: "Though I do not worship Isis, 
and do not follow her creed, I admire the architectural beauty of her 
Temple.  I beg of you, do not tear this building down!"  I would make 
Voltaire proud (eighteen centuries later).

So too, the Linnaean System is a beautiful think to behold.  But it was 
founded upon an outdated and flawed philosophy.  It deserves pride of place 
in history - but not in the present.



Timotheus Soter



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