Document 8V432Q4vqp94reNERBe0M9dXo

>, -*-^4 >Svlbd$%tai Xl'STT V-W*'-.: s'* r<-i.-.~r' !s i^3 INTERESTING TO NOTE S tyEVERAL technical hivtoriant have com1 imealed c m the atrange dearth of inventus vv" that pLafued clacucal Mediterranean aociety. v: ./ '/ la. liefofc. In Ijvpc. and liter in the colder north ern ami. invent on ric 10 more normal ralev hot the Greet I and Romam never even came clove to what m<(ht he eonodertd an average of human inventiveno-v. Scholan traditionally blame the (act that Uui an <vient.cIfjr $ clave aociety and that alavet don't invent or aolvc protdcmi (p 72) and their matlcn don't have to hecautc the Uhor la cheap--</ not practi cally fro*. Dr S. Colum GilhOan talet active iaut: with lha belief, end lor trteral inlcrr-Uinf <xaaooc. Kim, he aa>t tlavra arc by no meant mMmm free lahor and that ancient amtant (who mryht have done the real inventing of the time) were for the moat part me alavea. Second, the lack of raw matcmla or the traniponatioa to bony timber, fueh, and metah to the Mcditer- rancan laoda tended to ttuhrly invention Third, and to ut the next inter*itinj. it what Gdhllan calla a genetic eapianation. "from about ISO BC In Rome, when Orcck cooking wat introduced foe the wealthy, and probably about three ccotwriet earlier m Greece, the diet of the upper tlrnti wat full of lead. ctpcctaQy in their wine and their pape tirvp. their favorite eubviitute for abvent aufar (uve hooey). It wat cheer peaeon. the way the Romam made it. Into their arine the* put lead In aa many aa teven different way*; amce they apparently had title idea of the poconoueneve of the del. Modem medicine . . . Knowj that lead in women produce* tterility. abortion, and WiUbirth, and in children tmnya death or mental damage. A Imy dove daily--only 1 mg la cafe--it enough to (terminate a race in e century. Thit lead poiaon- ing could ecpiim ... the rapid and repeated catertnicatioa of the Roman aratiocracy, leaving it ebnoet chddlcu. When everyone who could nuke, marry, or mate with money went co a lead diet and exterminated hit feneration ... we can well imagine what thia would do to the native micthgeoce of the race, drat to the patridaoa and the* to the lower rnnki, whoae abieu or handvomeat membera linuaDy promoted to replenish the decimated plutocracy. . . . i-'iat-.iAS-'fr r