Book Review: The Ancient City by Numa Fustel de Coulanges (Part I)
“Fortunately, the past never completely dies for man. Man may forget it, but he always preserves it within him.”
– Fustel de Coulanges
Tag: Archaic (? BC-700 BC)
Book Review: The Iliad by Homer
“The Greek epics express, with an incomparable depth and fulness, the eternal knowledge of truth and destiny which is the creation of the heroic age—the age that cannot be destroyed by any bourgeois ‘progress’.”
– Werner Jaeger
Book Review of Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume I. Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens by Werner Jaeger
“But Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious. For passing by, and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the unknown God.”
– Acts 17:22-23
Book Review: The Aeneid by Virgil
“Be happy, friends; your fortune is achieved,
While one fate beckons us and then another.”
– Aeneid III. 655-656.
Film Review: Is Genesis History?
“Look at those other impious men who work with all their strength to destroy our holy religion by their writings, a Voltaire, a Jean Jacques Rousseau, a Diderot, an Ingersoll, a Darwin, and so many others, who only lived to disseminate by their writings what the devil had instilled in them. Alas! They have worked a great deal of misery, they have ruined countless souls and cast them into hell; but they could not destroy religion, as they believed—they were dashed to pieces on that rock.”
– St. Jean Marie Vianney, Sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent
Book Review: The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
– Luke 21:33