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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 January 2012 03:28:28AM *  8 points [-]

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books.

C.S. Lewis, Introduction to a translation of, Athanasius: On the Incarnation

Comment author: Desrtopa 17 January 2012 05:15:32PM 1 point [-]

Not likely to be much help if the new outlook is built upon the old in such a way that the mistakes of the old outlook are addressed by the new, but the mistakes of the new were not raised to the point of being able to be addressed within the old.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 17 January 2012 06:28:21PM 4 points [-]

True, on the other hand, I suspect people around here tend to massively overestimate how often that happens.

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