Gandhi today is up for grabs. He has become abstract, ahistorical, postmodern, no longer a man in and of his time but a freeloading concept.

Pope Julio (if I fail not in the name, and sure I am that there is a game of the cards after his name) was a great and wary player, a great vertue in a man of his profession

Dancing was in progress, or, rather, one of those orgiastic ceremonies which passed for dancing during this pagan period.

In trying to curb modern political Machiavellianism, some of the more consistent humanists find this analogy in the ethical ideas and the political practice of Gandhiism.