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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F497D'>Amen, Will!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F497D'>Chip<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Edward A. Hawks, III<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><hr size=5 width=460 style='width:264.95pt' noshade style='color:black' align=left></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Gifted Intervention Specialist <b><i>|</i></b> Exceptional Student Education</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Kent City School District<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><hr size=5 width=460 style='width:264.95pt' noshade style='color:red' align=left></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>What he seemed, he was—a wholly human gentleman, the </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>essential elements of whose positive character were two and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>only two, simplicity and spirituality. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>(Douglas Southall Freeman on Robert E. Lee)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Ohiogift [mailto:ohiogift-bounces@lists.osu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Fitzhugh via Ohiogift<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 27, 2015 9:33 AM<br><b>To:</b> ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Ohiogift] Temporal Provincials<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials—people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it. Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored. The modern world was compelling and new, and the past had no bearing on it. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt;min-height: 16px'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Studying history was as pointless as learning Morse code, or how to drive a horse-drawn wagon. And the medieval period—all those knights in clanking armor and ladies in gowns and pointy hats—was so obviously irrelevant as to be beneath consideration.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt;min-height: 16px'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Yet the truth was that the modern world was invented in the Middle Ages. Everything from the legal system, to nation-states, to reliance on technology, to the concept of romantic love had first been established in medieval times. These stockbrokers owed the very notion of a market economy to the Middle Ages. And if they didn’t know that, then they didn’t know the basic facts of who they were. Why they did what they did. Where they had come from. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt;min-height: 16px'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Professor Johnston often said that if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt;min-height: 16px'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt;min-height: 16px'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Crichton, Michael (2003-11-04). <i>Timeline: A Novel </i>(p. 71). </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>[Michael Crichton graduated <i>summa cum laude</i> from Harvard College.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:27.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>His M.D. was from Harvard Medical School]</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>