Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Conquer all mysteries by rule and line.

Empty the haunted air and nomid mine.

Unweave a rainbow as it erstwhile made the tender-personed Lamia melt

into a shade. Okay, it's time to talk about some poetry.

You guys, we've been doing one of my favorite series

that maybe I've ever done on this show.

The Young Heretics has been going on now for gosh, like four years, and it's been such a wild ride.

We've gone through so many intellectual journeys together, we've gone down all these great rabbit holes,

we're gonna keep doing it.

There's just no end of territory to explore. But I said at the beginning of this year that my

themes, really for the whole year, we were going to be two major questions and I think they're related questions or issues.

One is the relationship between science and faith and the other is the relationship between morality and art

and I've been exploring each of these in kind of different ways through different

historical periods different sets of ideas and questions and artists different light of the world that kind of gathers together a lot of this stuff a lot of things

especially we've been talking about the last few weeks are in this book I will

drop the pre-order link in the description of this episode if you're interested. I really think you will enjoy it.

Go pre-order that. But we've really been kind of on a science kick, like we've been on the science and faith side of these two major issues these questions

that I'm addressing and I've been talking about Faust and all the different versions of the Faust

story that kind of get us into thinking about major modern

questions that are live right now that we're facing right now about what the good uses of science are

and the bad uses of science

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