10-10-2016, 03:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2016, 03:47 AM by Diane.
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PS Rene,'
Thanks for the links to your site.
I have read before your interpretation of the events and documents and the less than honourable motives that you ascribe to various individuals, but it does no harm to refresh one's memory of other researchers' ideas, as I now have of yours.
I cannot see that there is any evidence of more than the usual circumspection with which dealers proceed, and the only thing not completely open about the Jesuits' behaviour is that of an individual or a community's attempting to avoid being reduced to beggary by a government intent on the acquisition and re-allocation of private property. As history teaches us, such processes destroy the integrity of libraries, their value, and results chiefly in the loss of the intellectual and artistic heritage which informs the collection.
In the circumstances, it seems more intelligent and prudent than deceitful for the Jesuits to have attempted, at lest, to sell to a dealer they trusted to deal with them fairly. Right or wrong.
But of course I'm not trying to persuade you.
Thanks for the links to your site.
I have read before your interpretation of the events and documents and the less than honourable motives that you ascribe to various individuals, but it does no harm to refresh one's memory of other researchers' ideas, as I now have of yours.
I cannot see that there is any evidence of more than the usual circumspection with which dealers proceed, and the only thing not completely open about the Jesuits' behaviour is that of an individual or a community's attempting to avoid being reduced to beggary by a government intent on the acquisition and re-allocation of private property. As history teaches us, such processes destroy the integrity of libraries, their value, and results chiefly in the loss of the intellectual and artistic heritage which informs the collection.
In the circumstances, it seems more intelligent and prudent than deceitful for the Jesuits to have attempted, at lest, to sell to a dealer they trusted to deal with them fairly. Right or wrong.
But of course I'm not trying to persuade you.