Ancients' word storms spew
Pillaging dictionaries
And burning wisdom.
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(The destruction of the library of Alexandria). In 391CE one of the greatest store-houses of knowledge of the ancient world, the Library at Alexandria was largely destroyed at the behest of Bishop Theophilus for fear of the knowledge it contained. (This was not the first disaster to befall the library, but was the most deliberate act of vandalism). Dogma was at the root of the next 1000 years of superstition, persecution and fear - a time when, for want of libraries, 'heretics' were burned instead.
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