Anthropology Found Its Galileo In Rivers, Its

Objects Are What Matter. Only They Carry The Evidence That Throughout The Centuries Something Really Happened Among Human Beings.

I Think That A Society Cannot Live Without A Certain Number Of Irrational Beliefs. They Are Protected From Criticism And Analysis Because They Are Irrational.

The Order And Harmony Of The Western World, Its Most Famous Achievement, And A Laboratory In Which Structures Of A Complexity As Yet Unknown Are Being Fashioned, Demand The Elimination Of A Prodigious Mass Of Noxious By-products Which Now Contaminate The Globe. The First Thing We See As We Travel Round The World Is Our Own Filth, Thrown Into The Face Of Mankind.

[serialism] Is Like A Sailless Ship, Driven Out To Sea By Its Captain, Who Has Grown Tired Of Its Being Used Only As A Pontoon, And Who Is Privately Convinced That By Subjecting Life Aboard To The Rules Of An Elaborate Protocol, He Will Prevent The Crew From Thinking Nostalgically Either Of Their Home Port Or Of Their Ultimate Destination.…

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.