In a message dated 4/18/2003 12:18:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< In my mind, to say a copy of the Qu'ran dating from the 1200s or a
 cuneiform tablet dating from 4000 BC is or no greater or less value to
 history than the Dead Sea Scrolls, a Gutenberg Bible, the Constitution
 of the United States, or a painting by Jackson Pollock. >>

This does not appear to be a complete sentence.  "...to say" [the above]
is...what?

I agree that scientific and research value is not universal, more's the pity.
 Nor, more broadly, are historical and educational values universal.  People
concerned about such values don't loot and vandalize museums.

There is certainly a gap here, but I suspect it's far more than generational.
 Luckily, such sniping does not offend me. :-)

David Haberstich
(An old Eurocentric fuddy-duddy)

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