<> [Aristotle Rhetoric B23] <<"We derive something useful for our orthodoxy even from the worldly science.. Everyone who has a mind will recognize that learning is our highest good.. also worldly learning, which many Christians incorrectly abhor.. those who hold such an opinion are stupid and ignorant. They want everyone to be just like themselves, so that the general failing will hide their own imperfections, and their ignorance will not be exposed." These words were spoken by Gregory at Basil's funeral>> [Florovsky EaFath4c (v7 ClxWx) ISBN 3-905238-07-1 p109] [Elsewhere Gregory calls creativity an emulation of the divine] <> [Cavarnos ModGrkThought 1986 1969 0-914744-11-9 p26] [If Basil was the Second Aristotle, Androutsos was the Third. Both Basil & Gregory were products of Aristotle's University] Greekness (Hellenism) is a state of MIND: the fist Universal Assimilative Citisenship emulated by Caesars, Tsars and Anglo Saxons. The goal of the true Greek is to make EVERYONE a Greek, NOT by physical, but by MENTAL conquest, with an ever curious, stubborn and argumentative dialectic. National determination (Helladism) is a racist Darwinian concept alien to Hellenism. Greeks are the ultimate generalists, seeing the connectedness of everything, superb strategists who jumpt to conclusions and seem to never have time for details, leaving them instead to Anatolians, Romans and Slavs. The modern capitalist Polis is a Greek invention, as Pericles notes the openness of Greek cities in his Funeral Oration, for Greeks were the first FREE people with free minds and free markets. If Greece ended prior to Socrates it would be unremarkable, but the greatness of Greece is in the renunciation of primordial pagan shackles. In his prewar oration, Pericles, like Abraham Lincoln, disdained farming, as alien to freedom, producing only envy and shared mediocrity; instead Greeks pursued commerce, preferring trade to conquest. Even the 1215 Magna Carta was PLAGIARISED by crusaders who had retuned from sacking Constantinople in 1204 but were not allowed to govern, even as conquerors, without the consent of the Byzantine Senate. Madison did NOT model the USA on Egypt, but on Greece.