I Think That A Society Cannot Live

The Work Of The Painter, The Poet Or The Musician, Like The Myths And Symbols Of The Savage, Ought To Be Seen By Us, If Not As A Superior Form Of Knowledge, At Least As The Most Fundamental And The Only One Really Common To Us All; Scientific Thought Is Merely The Sharp Point More Penetrating Because It Has Been Whetted On The Stone Of Fact, But At The Cost Of Some Loss Of Substance And Its Effectiveness Is To Be Explained By Its Power To Pierce Sufficiently Deeply For The Main Body Of The Tool To Follow The Head.

The Image A Society Evolves Of The Relationship Between The Living And The Dead Is, In The Final Analysis, An Attempt, On The Level Of Religious Thought, To Conceal, Embellish Or Justify The Actual Relationships Which Prevail Among The Living.

Civilization Has Ceased To Be That Delicate Flower Which Was Preserved And Painstakingly Cultivated In One Or Two Sheltered Areas Of A Soil Rich In Wild Species ... Mankind Has Opted For Monoculture; It Is In The Process Of Creating A Mass Civilization, As Beetroot Is Grown In The Mass. Henceforth, Man's Daily Bill Of Fare Will Consist Only Of This One Item.

I Am The Place In Which Something Has Occurred.

Scientific Knowledge Advances Haltingly And Is Stimulated By Contention And Doubt.