This was what never failed to stir her-the unfathomable gulf between today's thinking and the way the ancients thought. They were truly alien, not merely innocent agrarians with a foolish faith. (Gregory Benford)

This was what never failed to stir her-the unfathomable gulf between today's thinking and the way the ancients thought. They were truly alien, not merely innocent agrarians with a foolish faith.

Gregory Benford

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