Like the ancient philosophers or medieval mystics, we long to perceive the secret and idiosyncratic pattern within chaos, the singular currents running through the tumultuous sea.

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Those in the West looked to the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and historians, at least as far as the elite were concerned.

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Ancient philosophers called our functions passions, because what we do tends to render higher functions of the soul passive before our ability to override them.

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