Culture Means Control Over Nature.

Every Age Yearns For A More Beautiful World. The Deeper The Desperation And The Depression About The Confusing Present, The More Intense That Yearning.

It Is An Evil World. The Fires Of Hatred And Violence Burn Fiercely. Evil Is Powerful, The Devil Covers A Darkened Earth With Hisblack Wings. And Soon The End Of The World Is Expected. But Mankind Does Not Repent, The Church Struggles, And The Preachers And Poets Warn And Lament In Vain.

What The Study Of History And Artistic Creation Have In Common Is A Mode Of Forming Images.

History Is The Interpretation Of The Significance That The Past Has For Us.

A Crude Mind Could Easily Think: Something Is Valid, Therefore It Is True.