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.
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Brett Evill
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