Subject: Re: African values (Was: On interracial relationships, or anything)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:06:44 GMT

Paul (Kekai) Manansala (sac51900@saclink3.csus.edu) wrote:

(( cuts for space ))

: : With a little search, for which I do not have the
: : time at the moment, I am sure I could find the
: : Greek "author" who made the same claim.

: Here is the quote (part of public domain):

:        "Hence when all the discoveries of this kind (practical)
:         were fully developed, the sciences which relate neither
:         to pleasure nor yet to the necessities of life were
:         invented, and first in those places where men had leisure.
:         Thus the mathematical sciences originated in the
:         neighborhood of Egypt, because there the priestly class
:         was allowed leisure."   (Aristotle, _Metaphysics_ I.
:         I. 15, 1, trans. by H. Tredennick)

Thank you Paul.  
I warn people that
Paul has forgotten more
stuff than most of us
have yet learnt.

: Regards,
: Paul Kekai Manansala

Wayne, take note.  RC also.

	 

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