Concerning My Title

I just changed the title of this blog to something that expresses what I hope to accomplish what I want to do. In his "Essay on Man" Alexander Pope invites his friend St. John, Lord Bolingbroke,  (pronounced "SIN - jun") to join him in surveying the whole range of human activity:

            Let us ...
            Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;
            A mighty maze! but not without a plan;

We Christian Scientists would profess that the teachings we follow lead us out of the maze, the labyrinth. We can take an absolute stance that the textbook and the Bible are all we need. But to "expatiate free" we need clear directions as to what we are expatiating into, where we are placed in the long tradition of the best human life can offer. We cna't be so spiritual that we are no earthly good. It's a sad day when one must justify human history, human learning, human letters and humanity in general. Go ahead and read the rest of Epistle I of the Essay. Among other things you'll find the source of some material quoted in S&H,

http://www.bartleby.com/40/2801.html