…that it caused him to swoon away. Plotinus entered several times into the light and was, as he says, swallowed up in divinity. Dante describing paradise as being illumined as though by two suns I mean there is the ordinary sun and then there is this…

…historical precedents are not very encouraging. For example, take the case of single countries such as Italy. From the time of Dante onwards, at least, every intelligent Italian saw that it was absolutely essential to have a united Italy. But Italy was not,…