“Knowing this, we infer that periods of the past must have been much more elevated than our own. This, of course, is a questionable conclusion. What does seem to be the case, however, is that often, as periods succeed each other, some of what takes place is driven by reaction. The Apollonian impulse is often followed by the Dionysian. An age in which the moral boundaries are moved ever outwards is eventually overtaken by an age in which the boundaries are duly contracted in an effort to restore life.” [David Wells, Losing Our Virtue (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998), p. 54]
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