On 27-Sep-98 21:44:35 Brett Evill <b.evill at spamblocker.tyndale.apana.org.au> wrote:
>In article <360bc502.180750886 at news.frontiernet.net>,
>j5rson at iversonsoftware.com wrote:
>>I agree that da Vinci is a good candidate. My personal choice would be
>>Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged" one of the most influential books
>>of all time. As a philosopher she developed Objectivism, and
>>championed Reason in the 20th century.
>As influential as 'In Praise of the New Knighthood'? As influential as the
>'Confessions' of Augustine of Hippo? As the Bible? The Koran? Newton's
>'Principia'?, Harvey's 'On the Ciculation of the Blood'? Galileo's "The
>Revolution of the Celestial Orbs"? 'The Origin of Species'? Marx's
>"Capital"? Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"? These have profoundly
>influenced people even beyond the confines of the languages they were
>originally written in.
>If 'Atlas Shrugged' has had so much influence, why isn't it more famous?
>Really, here in Australia it is *very* obscure.
Dr. Frank Wallace. For him, Time mag. is not good enough! Nor is Nobel
Prize status.
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