I have illustrated, crudely enough, how a sense of things in their right values will help us on one side of our dealings with life. But truly it helps us on every side. This was what Plato meant when he said that a philosopher must see things as they relatively are within his horizon⁠—ὀ συνοπτικὸς διαλεκτικός. And for this it was that an English poet praised Sophocles as one + 

Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. + 

And this of course is what Dean Inge meant when, the other day, in a volume of Cambridge Essays on Education, he reminded us, for a sensible commonplace, that “The wise man is he who knows the relative values of things.” + 