<<Education exposes  to envy, which  is bad, and  makes men wise,  which is
good>> [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]

   <<Androutsos here  rejects the  custom that has  prevailed in the  West of
having two kinds of ethics,  one religious and the other philosophical. This,
he says, goes back to the  medieval "double truth" theory, according to which
what  is   theologically  true  may   be  philosophically  false,   and  vice
versa.. there must be one ethics..  must "utilize the materials provided both
by  the external and  by the  Christian tradition">>  [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.