And considering the average lifespan, it's a miracle that as much culture and civilization as there was seems to have prevailed. We are wrestling with a heritage left to us by world of underage alcoholics. This certainly explains a lot.
Dan >Actually there is evidence of the opposite. >Before coffee overtook Europe in 1648, people drank little water (as >unsafe), but mostly beer (beer soup as standard European breakfast). >So all Europeans were slightly inebriated in their waking hours. >Caffeine-induced sober stimulatedness was the revolution that begat >coffeehouse conversation, which in turm begat Kant and Hamann. >RT > >>>Or evidence that anyone performed sober? Perhaps only on special occasions. >> >>d >> >>> >> >>How about the proposition that "there was no church in Italy in the >>first half of the17th century in which the singers all performed in >>the nude?" Well.. who knows? But how likely is it? >>Or evidence that anyone performed sober? >> -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
