āThe ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.ā
āAll inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.ā
ā Ralph Waldo Emerson