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History of Western Philosophy, p. 39) this condition of the
Greek world in the early throes of dichotomy and the trauma of
literacy:
Not all of the Greeks, but a large proportion of them, were
passionate, unhappy, at war with themselves, driven
along one road by the intellect and along another by the
passions, with the imagination to conceive heaven and
the willful self-assertion that creates hell. They had a
maxim “nothing too much”, but they were in fact
excessive in everything—in pure thought, in poetry, in
religion, and in sin. It was the combination of passion and
intellect that made them great, while they were great. . . .
There were, in fact, two tendencies in Greece, one
passionate, religious, mystical, other worldly, the other
cheerful, empirical, rationalistic, and interested in