Acceptance Of Time Travel

We saw here that Pummairam and Keith Denison found it easier than most to accept time travel. Here is a third example. In "The Year Of The Ransom":

"Remarkable how swiftly [Castelar] grasped the idea." (Time Patrol, p. 688)

However, there are several explanations for his acceptance:

(i) "Educated men of the sixteenth century believed in miracles; it was Christian, Jewish, and Muslim dogma." (p. 689)

(ii) "They also lived in a world of revolutionary new discoveries, inventions, ideas." (ibid.)

(Thus, tradition and modernity temporarily reinforce rather than contradict each other.)

(iii) "The Spanish, especially, were steeped in tales of chivalry and enchantment - " (ibid.)

(So their fiction also helped.)

(iv) "No scientist had told Castelar that travel into the past was physically impossible..." (ibid.)

(v) "...no philosopher had listed the reason why it was logically absurd. He met the simple fact." (ibid.)

So why are we told that:

"The Patrol got few recruits from before the First Industrial Revolution, and very few from prescientific societies..." (The Shield Of Time, p. 300)?

The reason given here is:

"A person who hadn't been raised in that style of thinking was seldom able to assimilate the concepts." (ibid.)

"...that style of thinking..." means the scientific world-view which is necessary to understand the entire context of the Patrol and its technology. Babylonians at the Time Patrol Academy have to be given "...a battle-of-the-gods routine." (Time Patrol, p. 14)