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It's the human condition to be confused. No other animal ever had an erroneous thought about nature. Who knows what our version of the six-thousand-year-old earth is. It's hiding somewhere in plain sight. In five hundred years there'll be two or three things we believed and went on about at great length with perfect assurance that will seem hilarious to them.

The New World had a way of never being new. Ever notice this? I don't mean the Native Americans—that part's obvious. Even in European terms, somebody was always already there. The first person De Soto met in Florida spoke Spanish. Was in fact a Spaniard! And was it the Plymouth voyage that had aboard a group of Indians coming back from a visit to London?