There Is One Fact That Can Be

Natural Man Did Not Precede Society, Nor Is He Outside It.

I Am The Place In Which Something Has Occurred.

While I Complain Of Being Able To Glimpse No More Than The Shadow Of The Past, I May Be Insensitive To Reality As It Is Taking Shape At This Very Moment, Since I Have Not Reached The Stage Of Development At Which I Would Be Capable Of Perceiving It. A Few Hundred Years Hence, In This Same Place, Another Traveller, As Despairing As Myself, Will Mourn The Disappearance Of What I Might Have Seen, But Failed To See.

[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.…

Our Students Wanted To Know Everything: But Only The Newest Theory Seemed To Them Worth Bothering With. Knowing Nothing Of The Intellectual Achievements Of The Past, They Kept Fresh And Intact Their Enthusiasm For 'the Latest Thing'. Fashion Dominated Their Interest: They Valued Ideas Not For Themselves But For The Prestige That They Could Wring From Them.