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The Conservative It is generally supposed the Conservatives are usually old people, and that those in favour of change are the young. That is not quite correct. Usually Conservatives are young people: those who want to live but who do not think about how to live, and have not time to think, and therefore take as a model for themselves a way of life that they have seen. His Wife […]
Read moreA tragic tale of the unrelenting and destructive power of lust. Phaedra, wife of King Theseus, lusted after Hippolytus her stepson. When Hippolytus rejected her outright, she committed suicide from shame and despair, leaving a note falsely accusing Hippolytus of violating her. Theseus, upon reading the note, prayed to Poseidon to slay Hippolytus, causing the latter to suffer a violent and horrendous death. Sympathies for the victim Hippolytus, whose chastity […]
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