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...centuries the Greek Orthodox monastery of Saint Catherine has stood serene and safe beneath the shoulder of Mount Sinai. Founded in 527 by the Emperor Justinian, it is in one of the world's most inhospitable places. A traveler must drive 100 miles southeast from Suez across jagged wilderness, then turn off along a succession of dry stream beds for an eight-hour climb to the gates, 5,000 feet above the Red Sea. Its one tiny door swings open only for men bearing letters of introduction from the Greek Archbishop of Cairo...
...uses of leisure, Adler paraphrased Aristotle: "Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary, but it does not enrich or ennoble a human life. Leisure, in contrast, consists of all those activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually and spiritually." Asked to define justice, he quoted Justinian-"Render to each his due"-and Mortimer J. Adler-"Treat equals equally and unequals unequally in proportion to their inequality." Occasionally, Adler is stumped by a reader's question...
...force to the divinely inspired canons for human conduct of Moses; it gave force to the rule of the Hindu Manu, the Babylonian Hammurabi, the Roman Numa and the Greek Lycurgus; it gave force to the law as a human science in the Digest of Rome's Emperor Justinian; it gave force to the common law of England, based on principle, shaped by experience, controlled by reason...
Eliot has always operated on the principle that the critic should erect his personal tastes into law, and in this book he lays down a kind of Justinian Code of poetic greatness. According to Eliot, the greatest poets, and specifically Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, have "Abundance, Amplitude and Unity." By abundance. Eliot means that (unlike T. S. Eliot) "they all wrote a good deal." By amplitude, he means that "each had a very wide range of interest, sympathy and understanding." As for unity, "it is Life itself, the World seen from a particular point of view...
...sadder Thursday night salon but no less alcoholic is that of the Patriarch Justinian. Once defrocked for adultery and alcoholism, the 56-year-old Patriarch was appointed by the Russian Patriarch Alexei. Justinian's function: to help the Communists control Rumania's staunchly religious peasantry. Called in during one of the bearded Patriarch's vice-and-vodka loops, Dr. Cohen prescribed six months' psychoanalysis and electroshock therapy, but achieved no result. Says he: "The Patriarch's conflicts are insoluble...