An easy rebuttal to Hegel is to consider the Library at Alexandria, which predates Hegel’s thinking by a millennium.
Some have postulated that had it not been destroyed by the Romans, man might have landed on the moon five hundred years earlier than we did. Of course this is speculation, but here is a nifty little site examining the destruction of the Library.
Burnt libraries are like dead children to me.
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