None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught. - Edith Hamilton

Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek.

When the world is storm-driven and the bad that happens and the worse that threatens are so urgent as to shut out everything else from view, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages. The eternal perspectives are being blotted out, and our judgment of immediate issues will go wrong unless we bring them back. We can do so only, Socrates said in the last talk before his death, “when we seek the region of purity and eternity and unchangeableness, where when the spirit enters, it is not hampered or hindered, but ceases to wander in error, beholding the true and divine (which is not matter of opinion.)

The oracle has spoken. But for me, already old age is my companion,