technical advances of our time are accompanied by an extreme and debilitating moral permissiveness that promises in time to break down even the values and system that made both the advances and the permissiveness possible. Interestingly, the same thing was also true of the Greek philosophers, who, although they were men of great intellect, on occasion led depraved lives. In recent years the failures of the rationalistic system have impressed themselves on a new generation, with the result that many