From Bruce Hood's comment…
> Yes we could digitally recreate them in another location because, after all, Abemarle Street is just a building, but humans are a funny species who require sacred things to fire the imagination. Selling them would be tantamount to extinguishing Faraday’s candle forever.
How silly.
As someone who regularly passes Faraday's hut on Trinity Buoy Wharf, I can tell you that all it would take to extinguish his candle is a little puff of wind. And the grumpy old Sandemanian would then relight it without giving it a second thought.
Francis
On 24 Jan 13, at 23:46, Wynn Abbott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> “One commenter referred to a feature article in Nature on the importance of rituals and sacred values in shaping human evolution. Indeed, but ritual and magic exists in a state of social and cultural flux. Nothing is set in stone, oppressive intervention aside, and the narrative changes from generation to generation, all the time adapting to circumstance.”
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> Yes – the commenter you’re referring to is Bruce Hood (Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer, December 2011). His exact words are:
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