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From a materialist perspective, yes. What about a theist perspective? Through the dark ages, entire works of text from the ancient days were protected, guarded, and studied by monks and abbots. For a thousand years after the fall of Rome, these works were guarded and meticulously preserved despite the content of their text often being a mystery.