The Wisdom of the Hebrews looks at man’s history and attainments and says—What a magnificent ruin of what he was created to be! Very few of us think unblinded by a religious or a temperamental point of view, we are not capable of it. We are blinded either by religion, or temperament, or by thick-headedness. To look at things as they are, with the superb wisdom and understanding and disillusioned eye of Solomon, takes a Solomon to do it. Another man did it with the knowledge and understanding of Solomon,