EXCEPT when insanity or America intervenes, there is no such thing as an illogical mind. The mind is by definition logical, as Socrates demonstrated when he took an illiterate slave boy and led him through the solution of a complex mathematical problem by asking him the proper questions in the proper sequence.
What a glorious moment it must have been for those present, one of those clean, sharp times when cold comfort is the best comfort of all. If I could travel back into the past and pick one historical event to witness first-hand, I would skip the legendary battles and boudoir intrigues for a front-row seat at this triumph of the reasoning process.
Comments