If We Are To Preserve Culture We

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.

You Can Deny, If You Like, Nearly All Abstractions: Justice, Beauty, Truth, Goodness, Mind, God. You Can Deny Seriousness, But Not Play.

But One Sound Always Rose Above The Clamor Of Busy Life And, No Matter How Much Of A Tintinnabulation, Was Never Confused And, Fora Moment Lifted Everything Into An Ordered Sphere: That Of The Bells.

The Repudiation Of The Primacy Of Understanding Means The Repudiation Of The Norms Of Judgment As Well, And Hence The Abandonment Of All Ethical Standards.

Every Work Of History Constructs Contexts And Designs, Forms In Which Past Reality Can Be Comprehended. History Creates Comprehensibility Primarily By Arranging Facts Meaningfully And Only In A Very Limited Sense By Establishing Strict Causal Connections.