Greece

From The Saviors of God (1927; English 1960):

"We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have
named this circle God. We might have given it any other name
we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light,
Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval, life."

Greece has an exquisite modern philosophical background. Wherever you go, each island or mountain you visit, you will discover a very singular moral status. Sometimes, Greece is incongruous with the characterisation " a
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Homer
You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?
Homer, The Iliad

Thomas Henry Huxley
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
Thomas H. Huxley, Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays

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