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Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. The first free thinking unencumbered men! I am reading this book to try to be like them.

YOU MUST READ THE FOOTNOTES!!!! Some of the ideas and data are a bit outdated in the early section anyway.

Reading history as broad in scope as this makes humans look like piddling self important self centered knuckleheads. I love it.

Covering a lot of ground quickly! Already to the end of the dinosaurs.