<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2715.400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>we'll accept this on your authority, brad.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>R</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jbdelong@uclink.berkeley.edu href="mailto:jbdelong@uclink.berkeley.edu">Brad DeLong</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 18, 2002 2:25 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Greenspan, thinking</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>>>From: "R" <<A href="mailto:rhisiart@earthlink.net">rhisiart@earthlink.net</A>><BR>>><BR>>>ayn appears to have missed all the stages of mammalian evolution following<BR>>>lizard and leading to homo sapien.<BR>><BR>>The mass appeal of Ayn Rand and her "philosophy" is one of the great <BR>>mysteries of history -- though admittedly I speak of the history of, <BR>>as you mention, Homo sapiens, whose claim to the qualifier "sapiens" <BR>>seems ever more doubtful.<BR>><BR>>Carl<BR><BR>Now, now, no one who has not read either _The Fountainhead_ or _Atlas <BR>Shrugged_ before the age of 17 has ever been able to read them...<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>