Book Preview Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.—ALEXANDER THE GREAT It is a divine right of madness, not to be able to see the evil which lies just in front.—UNKNOWN DANISH PLAYWRIGHT Toil and risk are the … Read more
Book Preview History is the distillation of evidence surviving the past. —OSCAR HANDLIN, Truth in History (1979) Since the first Adam who beheld the night and the day and the shape of his own hand, men have made up stories and have fixed in stone, in metal, or on parchment whatever the world includes or … Read more
Book Preview Jesus said, “Know what is within your sight, and what is hidden from you will become clear. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.” —THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS “It has served us well, this myth of Christ.” —POPE LEO X Jesus said, “Know what is within your sight, and what … Read more