Stevenson tells us of the ways and works of simple men, their sailorings, their fightings, their treasure-seeking, their love and hatred.

Rather than such Hellenic greatness of soul, Proverbs emphasized humbleheartedness.

The decline in the quality of eligible collateral is a grave problem. The ECB is now buying corporate bonds that are close to junk, and the haircuts can barely deal with a one-notch credit downgrade. The reputational risk of such actions by a central bank would have been unthinkable in the past.

The second is that if evolutionism is taken as evidence of a thinly veiled militarist and ethnoracialist agenda, most figures instrumental in the early twentieth-century peace movement do not qualify as pacifists.