The New Knowledge Has Not Yet Settled

Most Thoughtful Americans Of Today Seem To Have Forgotten How Strongly Their Own And Immediate Predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne And Whitman, Were Still Preoccupied With The Essence Behind Things.

In Order To Begin An Analysis, There Must Already Be A Synthesis Present In The Mind.

Without Metaphor The Handling Of General Concepts Such As Culture And Civilization Becomes Impossible, And That Of Disease And Disorder Is The Obvious One For The Case In Point. Is Not Crisis Itself A Concept We Owe To Hippocrates? In The Social And Cultural Domain No Metaphor Is More Apt Than The Pathological One.

The More The Specific Feelings Of Being Under Obligation Range Themselves Under A Supreme Principle Of Human Dependence The Clearer And More Fertile Will Be The Realization Of The Concept, Indispensable To All True Culture, Of Service; From The Service Of God Down To The Simple Social Relationship As Between Employer And Employee.

The Spirit Of Playful Competition Is, As A Social Impulse, Older Than Culture Itself And Pervades All Life Like A Veritable Ferment. Ritual Grew Up In Sacred Play; Poetry Was Born In Play And Nourished On Play; Music And Dancing Were Pure Play....we Have To Conclude, Therefore, That Civilization Is, In Its Earliest Phases, Played. It Does Not Come From Play...it Arises In And As Play, And Never Leaves It.