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Hello, our lives are busy and we sometimes forget where we've come from and who we've been.

What did it mean to be a human being in the 19th century or the 8th century in ancient times.

If we look too far back, we even wonder whether we have anything in common

with those people at all did they think like us,

what's the evidence for that? We expect that parents loved

their children and we hope that the young revered their elders and there is some

evidence for that in bone records.

Isn't there a diseased or maimed child who grew up

suggests that people were not functional,

they were not just raised to be of use,

but were treated as family members, beloved and deserving of care.

The same is true for some of the elderly skeletons that have been found.

We look at cave paintings and think, ah, they found magic in this

spectacle. They respected reality and wanted to enhance it through artwork. Who knows what was in their minds? But we know at least that much was. We have

literature to give us much more than that and we also have theater. The plays if they've survived and

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