Not exact matches
To avoid that fate, both companies aggressively made sure to strategically
preserve and perpetuate their
cultures,
even as they swelled in numbers.
In regards to your comment «the fact that you
even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped
preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western
culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..
Protestantism made impossible a single ecclesiastical structure for Western Europe, but
even had the outward unity of the Church in Western Europe been
preserved, it is hard to believe that the Popes, as the spokesmen for that comprehensive body, would have had more voice in international affairs than they actually possessed or that a more effective unity of
culture would have been
preserved.
Ahrendts
even brought in an anthropologist to study the company
culture she helped create, so as to better understand and
preserve it.
It is an almost painful imagining of what a world without violent colonization could be, where past and future co-exist, one honoring the other, the old ways
preserved as new advances emerge,
culture intact
even as it evolves.