Wise men still seek Him today.
But in action, one defies one's character.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.