Reason Ought Not Be the Enemy

Music: Sonata for Flute and Guitar. By Tomaso Albinoni. Sequenced by Dmitri Bachovich at Kunst der Fuge.

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Reason ought not be the enemy Of myth, but rather its interpreter, Showing one what else one might not see, Hindsight to which faith might well refer. Holding on to myth does not require A blindness to what science has to say. Salvation is not merely a desire Hoped for in some long-outmoded way. A myth, like art, sustains itself through beauty, Not only true, but doing double duty As both the cast of conscience and the fire, Habitude no argument need sway.