“Be on your way; this is holy soil.” “How can you be so sure? It looks like ordinary dirt.” - Jack Vance

If the past is a house of many chambers, then the present is the most recent coat of paint.

Ignorance induces suspicion.

I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.