It’s easy to think that newer is always better. That’s because, in thousands of different ways, newer certainly is better than older.
Think, for example, of medical care today compared to medical care 100 years ago, let alone 1,000 years ago. Think of what’s done today with advanced heart surgery, something that would have been completely unthinkable in the past. And that’s just one example out of countless thousands when it comes to health care.
Yet we must reject what C. S. Lewis termed ‘chronological snobbery’...