A Crude Mind Could Easily Think: Something

In Order To Begin An Analysis, There Must Already Be A Synthesis Present In The Mind.

Without Metaphor The Handling Of General Concepts Such As Culture And Civilization Becomes Impossible, And That Of Disease And Disorder Is The Obvious One For The Case In Point. Is Not Crisis Itself A Concept We Owe To Hippocrates? In The Social And Cultural Domain No Metaphor Is More Apt Than The Pathological One.

If, Then, This Civilization Is To Be Saved, If It Is Not To Be Submerged By Centuries Of Barbarism, But To Secure The Treasures Ofits Inheritance On New And More Stable Foundations, There Is Indeed Need For Those Now Living Fully To Realize How Far The Decay Has Already Progressed.

Barbarisation May Be Defined As A Cultural Process Whereby An Attained Condition Of High Value Is Gradually Overrun And Supersededby Elements Of Lower Quality.

The Repudiation Of The Primacy Of Understanding Means The Repudiation Of The Norms Of Judgment As Well, And Hence The Abandonment Of All Ethical Standards.