The moderator said: >[Our discussion of Stark has taken us pretty far from the History of >Economics, broadly defined. I trust we can self-censor and keep our >remarks within the confines of the HES list guidelines. You are always >free to directly email someone if you wish to continue the conversation. HB] Our own history as a discipline associates us both causally and consequentially with the much-maligned Enlightenment, the greatest of whose representatives would certainly have had no truck with an attempt to associate the victory of reason - as opposed to its hobbling and maiming - with any religion at all. A pox, as they say, on them all! Ecrasez L'Infame! Kevin Quinn