The Old Atlantis

Solon, as a Greek, had always held reason in the highest esteem. He considered it to be man’s innate lantern, able to disperse the darkness of ignorance; a light that could put barbaric superstition to flight. In that moment, however, his reason had shrunk to an awe-struck child with liquid eyes and the only light that shone in the vast expanse of the darkness surrounding him was an...