Greek temples

Greek Temple Good for competence building and nurturing. Blue sky work can be protected... 

Greek Temple. Each pillar in the temple is a separate function. Works by logic and procedures and carefully delegated authority. Slow to react to change. 

The usual answer to this question is that there was plenty of time to try everything. I could never accept this answer. Random shuttling of bricks will never build a castle or a Greek temple, however long the available time. A random process can build meaningful structures only if there is some kind of selection between meaningful and non-sense mutations. 

The builders of the Greek temples must have used timber frames and manual hoists that were equipped with capstans and pulleys similar to those used in... 

This speech their dull disciples (the Greeks) took in a moral sense, and in ignorance affixed it to their Temples. But I admonish thee, whosoever thou art, that desirest to dive into the inmost parts of Nature, if that which thou seekest thou find not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee. If thou knowest not the excellency of thine own house, why dost thou seek and search after the excellency of other things The universal Orb of the world contains not so many great mysteries and excellen-... 

In the early centuries of our era, Rome and Athens contained temples of Egyptian Isis, and shrines to Mitlira, the Persian sun god, were frequent in Greek and Roman cities, symptoms of a decline in the power of the ancient religions in the centers of civilization under the Empire. 

I gave up on the shortcut exit plan and started back to the lobby. Then the scene shifted to a classical temple, Greek or Egyptian. There was a narrow stair passing below a stone arch with a... 

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