Excerpt from From the Greek by Stephen Mackenna, Vol. 4Admiring pursuit of the external is a confession of inferiority and nothing thus holding itself inferior to things that rise and perish, nothing counting itself less honourable and less enduring than all else it admires Could ever form any notion of either the nature or the power of God.A double discipline must be applied if human beings in this pass are to be reclaimed, and brought back to their origins, lifted once more towards the Supreme and One and First.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.