“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.”

Isn't that the truth!

Welcome to Amerika with its false religion and supporting statist theocracy. Could that be true even more now than then? WOW, I say hmmm.

There's that Word again, " know " vs " Know " ? Shows a difference between, the wandering of desire and the " beholding of the eye." which is of the "eye", a manifest " token " for good. greatly to be desired of all those who search to " Know". Ginosko.
It is better to be Theosebeia, a reverence for God's goodness. Let your actions be Eusebes, well directed.