Buridan is best-known to philosophers for the example of Buridan's Ass, starving to death between two equidistant and equally tempting bales of hay, …

But the favourite's power and influence provoke intense ill-feeling among other courtiers, who regard him as a sinister, usurping parvenu with ideas above his station, or perhaps even a sorcerer.

They struck the doors with their riflebutts, and crept past the window with their pocket torches.

To Shorthouse in his prepsychology era, the collective unconscious meant the world of ideas, and the great work of any religious artist was to serve the idea of the Platonic Christ, not a person nor a personality, […]