A friend once told of his visit to the ancient monastery of Mount Athos in Greece, whose traditions date from the earliest days of Christianity. He sat one evening for several hours side side with an

A friend once told of his visit to the ancient monastery of
Mount Athos in Greece, whose traditions date from the earliest
days of Christianity. He sat one evening for several hours side
side with an old monk, looking out over the mountains and sea.
He knew no Greek, but longed for a conversation about spiritual
matters with the old man. The old monk must have sensed it, and
said at last in English the sentence: “Women are evil.” That was