“Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.”
Henry James Sumner Maine (1822–1888) British comparative jurist and historian
‘Village Communities’ (3rd ed., 1876) p. 238.
“If faith is a mystery, it is because its nature is inexpressible in the measure that it is profound, for it is not possible to convey fully by words this vision which is still blind, and this blindness which already sees.”
[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 97, 978-1-936597-32-1]
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