settlers

From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 14 Nov 1994 - 00:42:05 EET


Nick Brooke attempts to hoist Joerg with his own Holy Country petard, which I fear to be something of a damp squib:

> > Those of the settlers who came for religious or political reasons came
> > because they wanted to change their life from that accepted at home.

> Cart before horse. They came because the way of life previously accepted at home
> (their accustomed way of life) was now being changed.

This would appear to suggest that 300 years ago, Esrolia was a Thoroughly Modern Model Patriarchy. Which I doubt. The Pharaoh may have made any number of changes in Esrolia, but why would he have made it matriarchal?

Alex.



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