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... Clear Thinking Is Not The Characteristic Which Distinguishes Our Literature Today. We Are More And More Caught Up By The Unintelligible. People Like It. This Argues An Inability To Think, Or, Almost As Bad, A Disinclination To Think.

Civilization...is A Matter Of Imponderables, Of Delight In The Thins Of The Mind, Of Love Of Beauty, Of Honor, Grace, Courtesy, Delicate Feeling. Where Imponderables, Are Things Of First Importance, There Is The Height Of Civilization, And, If At The Same Time, The Power Of Art Exists Unimpaired, Human Life Has Reached A Level Seldom Attained And Very Seldom Surpassed.

I Came To The Greeks Early, And I Found Answers In Them. Greece's Great Men Let All Their Acts Turn On The Immortality Of The Soul. We Don't Really Act As If We Believed In The Soul's Immortality And That's Why We Are Where We Are Today.

The Greeks Were The First Intellectualists. In A World Where The Irrational Had Played The Chief Role, They Came Forward As The Protagonists Of The Mind.

He Was There Beside Her, Yet She Was Far Away From Him, Aone With Her Outraged Love And Her Ruined Life.