It Is, All In All, A Historic

And While Faith Based On Theological Reasoning Is Today Universally Engaged In A Bitter Struggle With Doubt And Resistance From The Prevailing Brand Of Rationalism, It Does Seem That The Naked Fundamental Experience Itself, That Primal Seizure Of Mystic Insight, Stripped Of Religious Concepts, Perhaps No Longer To Be Regarded As A Religious Experience At All, Has Undergone An Immense Expansion And Now Forms The Soul Of That Complex Irrationalism That Haunts Our Era Like A Night Bird Lost In The Dawn.

An Impractical Man--which He Not Only Seems To Be, But Really Is--will Always Be Unreliable And Unpredictable In His Dealings With Others. He Will Engage In Actions That Mean Something Else To Him Than To Others, But He Is At Peace With Himself About Everything As Long As He Can Make It All Come Together In A Fine Idea.

... Nothing Is More Human Than Substituting The Quantity Of Words And Actions For Their Character. But Using Imprecise Words Is Very Similar To Using Lots Of Words, For The More Imprecise A Word Is, The Greater The Area It Covers.

His Answers Were Quite Often Like That. When She Spoke Of Beauty, He Spoke Of The Fatty Tissue Supporting The Epidermis. When She Mentioned Love, He Responded With The Statistical Curve That Indicates The Automatic Rise And Fall In The Annual Birthrate. When She Spoke Of The Great Figures In Art, He Traced The Chain Of Borrowings That Links These Figures To One Another.

... We Engage In Politics Because We Don't Know Anything. This Is Clearly Revealed In The Way We Go About It. Our Parties Exist From A Fear Of Theory. The Voter Fears That One Idea Can Always Be Contradicted By Another. Therefore The Parties Reciprocally Defend Themselves Against The Few Old Ideas They Have Inherited. They Don't Live From What They Promise, But From Frustrating The Promises Of Others. This Is Their Silent Community Of Interests.