Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
In war you win or lose live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for...
The mind in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature with revelation with God with itself loses its life just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
