Our Corner of The Kingdom
When Bede the Venerable wrote The Ecclesiastical History of the English People around 731 AD, his library of 250 books was perhaps the largest in England. Before the printing press was invented in the early 1500’s, humanity had the “luxury” of absorbing the wisdom of the ages as it was generated. Until the 20th century the sum of human knowledge had doubled every century. That “luxury” of time to absorb new ideas, evaluate the ideas, and discard or slowly adopt new ideas has