About Girard, Strauss, and whether the truth will be revealed in the fullness of time: a commentator on my video noted that the frontispiece of Bacon's New Atlantis shows "Father Time pulling a naked crowned female figure representing Truth, out of a cave, a symbol of time as the n truth. On it are the words: 'TEMPORE PATET OCCULTA VERITAS' or 'Hidden Truth is brought forth by Time.'"
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@millerman Although this is Bacon’s vision of truth through scientific advance, not Girard’s vision of divine revelation.
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@millerman The alternative, of course, would be a frontispiece depicting the famous scene of a young leader coming to expect to wield supreme power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at him.
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