think that the tower is a metaphor for diversity within the culture arising through class rankings.
Well the story always sounded to me as an attempt to explain the fact that people could not understand foreignors despite the fact that everyone alive was only a few generations from removed from Noah and his boys who presumably all understood each other.
There are way more people in China right now than there probably were during the time period this story depicts. Do you think it is possible for the Chinese to build a tower to reach heaven?
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei 1615.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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