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...ancient man never separated knowledge from salvation. For him the
search for knowledge was the search for a better state of being...
To purify and restrain the isolated intellect was part of his effort to
be aware of the whole of himself. To know nature meant to experience
himself in his proper cosmic place.
Only then could the urge to be active make sense. Only then could he know
what to "do". Because it is, surely, emotion which can tell us
what to do, which can tell us what is needful, and, finally, which can
connect us with a mind, obedience to which is a necessity for perfecting
our lives.
–from review:
Before Philosophy
by Henri Frankfort
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