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Virtue and Wisdom, Only, Perfect and Defend Man

Greetings, and welcome back to our study of Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma as we continue reading chapter 29.     This time, we find Pike writing about traits that seem to have vanished en masse, and that is virtue and wisdom.      Where we can instantly “look up” facts on our smart phones much quicker than at any time in history by losing the need for volumes of encyclopedias shelved in our home libraries, we have no certain means to instill virtues or hold becoming wise as a lofty goal.     As a society, we fall into the traps of being entertained above being educated, we seek new viral videos before we seek wisdom.      And now, LET’S READ PIKE!        The law hath not power to strike the virtuous, nor can fortune subvert the wise. Virtue and Wisdom, only, perfect and defend man. Virtue's garment is a sanctuary so sacred, that even Princes dare not strike the man that is thus...