Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

“The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but …”

“If God is wiser that we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and…”

“That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take…”

“It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dream…”