Nor can we...judge what [History's] use and powers were, at a time, when all a man could know, was what he could remember. To which we may add, that in a rude and unlettered state of society the memory is loaded with nothing that is either useless or unintelligible; whereas modern education employs us chiefly in getting by heart, while we are young, what we forget before we are old.
~Robert Wood
Essays on the Original Genius of Homer
Do you think that ancient humans were more or less intelligent than we are?
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