@thomasfuchs Author/theologian C.S. Lewis said this about reading old books: "Every age has its own outlook... We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own....Not, of course, that there is any magic about the past. People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes....2 heads are better than 1, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction."