in <b.evill-2909980744170001 at tynslip1.apana.org.au>, b.evill at spamblocker.tyndale.apana.org.au (Brett Evill) did something allowing me to incorporate a very witty verb in this line and produced:
>In article <6uom0v$dv7$1 at news.fas.harvard.edu>, pgowder at law.harvard.edu>(Paul Gowder) wrote:
>>>in <b.evill-2809981244530001 at tynslip4.apana.org.au>,
>b.evill at spamblocker.tyndale.apana.org.au (Brett Evill) did something
>allowing me to incorporate a very witty verb in this line and produced:
>>>>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.
>>>>>>You forgot The Prince. (my favorite book)
>>I also left out 'The Golden Bough', 'The Interpretation of Dreams',
>Einstein's papers on Relativity, Mao's Little Red Book, Keynes' 'General
>Theory of Money, Interest, and Unemployment', Cranmer's 'Book of Common
>Prayer', and dozens of others. I got tired.
>
No need for sarcasm. Prince had a much wider influence than any of
those books mentioned in the second paragraph, and arguably more than
several in the first (Wealth of Nations, On the Circulation of Blood,
etc.)
-P