The Second Fundamental Feature Of Culture Is

Play Is A Uniquely Adaptive Act, Not Subordinate To Some Other Adaptive Act, But With A Special Function Of Its Own In Human Experience.

What The Study Of History And Artistic Creation Have In Common Is A Mode Of Forming Images.

The New Knowledge Has Not Yet Settled In Culture. It Has Not Yet Been Integrated In A New Cosmic Conception.

William James Once Said: "progress Is A Terrible Thing." It Is More Than That: It Is Also A Highly Ambiguous Notion. For Who Knowsbut That A Little Further On The Way A Bridge May Not Have Collapsed Or A Crevice Split The Earth?

Play Is Older Than Culture, For Culture, However Inadequately Defined, Always Presupposes Human Society, And Animals Have Not Waited For Man To Teach Them Their Playing.