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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<3 "Here were clearly the seeds of our modern world, but why didn't they take root and flourish? Why instead did the West slumber through a thousand years of darkness until Columbus and Copernicus and their contemporaries rediscovered the work done here? I cannot give you a simple answer, but I do know this: There is no record in the entire history of the Library that any of the illustrious scholars and scientists who worked here ever seriously challenged a single political or economic or religious assumption of the society in which they lived.