On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 10:52 -0500, Jacob Keller wrote:
To understand the fundamentals of any discipline, I have always found
it
> completely worthwhile to go back to the original source, where the
idea was
> first discovered or presented. This is really, really valuable,
although not
> always possible.
I have found this to be not possible, and therefore not valuable, in the
disciplines of fire-starting and wheel-building.
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With the single exception of Cornell, there is not a college in the
United States where truth has ever been a welcome guest - R.G. Ingersoll
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David J. Schuller
modern man in a post-modern world
MacCHESS, Cornell University
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