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But that same history tells of the greatness of the human race. We have ended serfdom and slavery, abolished the divine right of kings, and introduced parliamentary democracy.
The surprising thing is not that the British were originally involved in the slave trade - everyone was - but that they unilaterally decided to end it.
Hanania is skeptical about the value of reading old books primarily on the grounds that human thought has made progress over time and thereby rendered many of the arguments of the past irrelevant for the modern world.
The people that form the community are the most important aspect of the endeavour and the foresight (both in philosophical and practical matters) of those that found it.
