Which is a truth we are in danger of forgetting, or losing sight of, I think, when we begin to regard tradition as irrelevant to us because of how far we’ve advanced in certain quarters, or as something antagonistic to our contemporary selves because of the ignorance or barbarism of which peoples of earlier eras (or even peoples now, who can be associated with those earlier eras) might have shown themselves to be capable, in other avenues of life.