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Jack Lindsay has authoritatively characterized as a person “…in continuallychanging symbiosis, grasping to the best of his ability the potential elements in
himself…interpreting a difficult world…”
24
But if there is one quality that emerges
unscathed throughout such historical chaos, awaking the need to scientifically
describe, or poetically evoke that humanistic impulse which sees in all of Nature
that mirror of oneself, the word is hope.
25
Hope that corresponds with George
Steiner’s “rudimentary grammar of the unfathomable.”
26
24 See Song Of A Falling World – Culture during the Break-up of the Roman Empire, A.D. 350–600,
by Jack Lindsay, Andrew Dakers Limited, London, 1948, p. 285.
25 See Brier-Patch Philosophy By ‘Peter Rabbit’, Written by William J. Long, Illustrated by Charles
Copeland, Ginn & Company, Boston, MA., 1906, p.273.
26 See Real Presences, by George Steiner, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1989, p. 201.
Fig. 10.2 Dunderawe Castle, From John Parker Lawson’s Scotland Delineated, 1854. (Private
Collection). (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
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Jack Lindsay has authoritatively characterized as a person “…in continuallychanging symbiosis, grasping to the best of his ability the potential elements in
himself…interpreting a difficult world…”
24
But if there is one quality that emerges
unscathed throughout such historical chaos, awaking the need to scientifically
describe, or poetically evoke that humanistic impulse which sees in all of Nature
that mirror of oneself, the word is hope.
25
Hope that corresponds with George
Steiner’s “rudimentary grammar of the unfathomable.”
26
24 See Song Of A Falling World – Culture during the Break-up of the Roman Empire, A.D. 350–600,
by Jack Lindsay, Andrew Dakers Limited, London, 1948, p. 285.
25 See Brier-Patch Philosophy By ‘Peter Rabbit’, Written by William J. Long, Illustrated by Charles
Copeland, Ginn & Company, Boston, MA., 1906, p.273.
26 See Real Presences, by George Steiner, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1989, p. 201.
Fig. 10.2 Dunderawe Castle, From John Parker Lawson’s Scotland Delineated, 1854. (Private
Collection). (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
10 Ecological Contradiction, Antinomy, and Counter-Intuition