Sublime

Of all the various herbs in the Chinese pharmacopoeia, none is better known or more widely used than ginseng. The “man root,” so named for its striking

false repositories for our hope,

For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636–1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence, and so to see it pervaded by a numinous glory, is to see things as they truly are, and to recognize creation as the mirror of God’s infinite beauty.

If the medicine is good, the disease will be cured. It is not necessary to know who prepared it, or where it came from.