Category: Mortality and Death
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On The “Fourth Nature” – The “Unnamed Element” of the Mind
I hesitate to post mainly a series of questions, rather than suggested answers, but the subject of this post is a topic I think so important that it merits an...
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Once Having Scaled The Alpine Peak, Would We Wish To Remain On The Top?
In speaking with a friend today about his melancholy feeling as he observed the decline in health of a loved one, I remembered that I have far from mastered the...
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Gibbon on “An idle and extravagant opinion which was rejected with contempt by every man of a liberal education and understanding.”
As hard as it is to imagine today, there was once a time when the actions of the enlightened leaders of Western Civilization were “never regulated by any serious convictions...