On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 05:13 AM, George M Jempty wrote:
>
> Ellen White apologists claim that plagarism was commonplace in her day
> (late 1800's, first decade 1900's), or at least citing others without
> attribution. Can anybody in this group confirm, yay or nay?
I don't know the answer, but I've wondered whether the whole "preaching"
tradition--(perhaps a synthesis of the patterns of Greek philosophers
and tribal myth-tellers) is not a powerful movement in itself
(regardless of the subject/philosophy/religion being "preached") and one
of its highly-valued patterns is that of taking the spoken concepts of
others, and filtering them through this group-oriented type of
communication, bringing experience and concept together in a highly
dynamic kind of interaction, and then re-storing this in spoken patterns
that ARE to be passed on, from preacher to preacher.
In our modern parlance, this is "plagiarism," pure and simple, but the
practice seems to me to be essential to the great historical (and
still-functioning) examples of group development and awareness.
maggie
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