Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often

For History Is To The Nation As Memory Is To The Individual.

Science And Technology Revolutionize Our Lives, But Memory, Tradition And Myth Frame Our Response. Expelled From Individual Consciousness By The Rush Of Change, History Finds Its Revenge By Stamping The Collective Unconscious With Habits, Values, Expectations, Dreams. The Dialectic Between Past And Future Will Continue To Form Our Lives.

Liberalism Regards All Absolutes With Profound Skepticism, Including Both Moral Imperatives And Final Solutions... Insistence Upon Any Particular Solution Is The Mark Of An Ideologue.

The Very Discovery Of The New World Was The By-product Of A Dietary Quest.

History Is Full Of Surprises.