Seconded.
I hadn't read Carbine's posts before this thread. I can only marvel before such a beautiful mind that can express such moral clarity, passion and insights in clear and eloquent prose.
"The sages have a hundred maps to give
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree
They rattle reason out through many a sieve
That stores the sand and lets the gold go free.
And all these things are less than dust to me
Because my name is Lazarus, and I live."
-- G.K. Chesterton