‘The Canon’ is what it is because it’s the body of thought that has affected our institutions, what the people who came before us—those who designed and contributed to our current systems and its institutions—studied themselves in an intergenerational descent.
That is, in this sense of what ‘the Canon’ is, the basis for what it is comprised of is the set of historical facts that can not be changed.
However, as people more and more on their own choose to read things outside ‘the Canon’, and the proportion of that two people in history grows, until the former overtakes the latter, then ‘the Canon’ changes; but it does so naturally and organically, and therefore rightly.
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