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but they aren't giving up and saying "It must be magic!"


Of course not, but do you not think that this difference is a feature of our increased understanding and improved methods.

I believe it is usually (if not always) an unproductive exercise to try to judge the actions of people in past ages by the standards of the present day. However, it can be interesting to look in a general way at the underlying trends.

There never was nothing.