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Western civilization spent 2,500 years trying to get people to shut up. The armies of Alexander the Great were amazed to see their leader read a letter from his mother silently-because he alone knew h
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Western civilization spent 2,500 years trying to get people to shut up. The armies of Alexander the Great were amazed to see their leader read a letter from his mother silently-because he alone knew how. After the dawn ofChristianity, centuries upon centuries admired the ability not tovocalize, not to talk? Silence was an achievement. It signaled anintensifying inwardness of belief, a world of individual privacy, a different mode of thought. Thus humans were gradually quieted-as part of the civilizing process.
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