Literature Speaks The Language Of The Imagination,

What If Criticism Is A Science As Well As An Art? Not A Pure Or Exact Science, Of Course, But These Phrases Belong To A Nineteenth-century Cosmology Which Is No Longer With Us.

Culture's Essential Service To A Religion Is To Destroy Intellectual Idolatry, The Recurrent Tendency In Religion To Replace The Object Of Its Worship With Its Present Understanding And Forms Of Approach To That Object.

The Primary And Literal Meaning Of The Bible, Then, Is Its Centripetal Or Poetic Meaning.

Man Is Constantly Building Anxiety-structures, Like Geodesic Domes, Around His Social And Religious Institutions.

The Book Of Revelation, Difficult As It May Be For "literalists," Becomes Much Simpler When We Read It Typologically, As A Mosiac Of Allusions To Old Testament Prophecy.