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CHAT: Primates (was: Uniates and sacraments)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, April 10, 2000, 20:40
BP Jonsson wrote:

> I ne'er thought of that polysemy. :-)
AFAIK, Stephen Jay Gould first published it: in his essay on Bishop Ussher, Primate of All (Anglican) Ireland, and author of the timescale setting 4004 B.C. as the date of Creation that used to be put in the margins of English Bibles. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)