In a message dated 08/08/2000 8:35:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << Pound's appeals to his family lineage may be a fallacious "argumentative device". But appeals to lineage are also an ancient way of establishing one's bona fides--here in the West. >> but not in the East, where such ancestor worship is practically unheard of.... jb...