The Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians, 1:22-24.
In the days of Jesus and Paid, four races, or thoughts, dominated the world: the Jews, representing the religious sense; the Orientals, representing superstition, mysticism, and magic; the Romans, standing for worldliness, ambition, and political power; the Greeks, who ruled in aesthetics and philosophy.
Each of these types of mortal mind had its ruling ideal, which in the course of ages was realized, and the fruit left for history to judge. The Roman dream of vast political power and unity, came to be a fact; the Orient produced its mystics and its vedas; the Grecian visions of perfection took form through Praxiteles and Plato, at whom the world still wonders.
