The World Began Without Man, And It

Our System Is The Height Of Absurdity, Since We Treat The Culprit Both As A Child, So As To Have The Right To Punish Him, And As An Adult, In Order To Deny Him Consolation.

The Order And Harmony Of The Western World, Its Most Famous Achievement, And A Laboratory In Which Structures Of A Complexity As Yet Unknown Are Being Fashioned, Demand The Elimination Of A Prodigious Mass Of Noxious By-products Which Now Contaminate The Globe. The First Thing We See As We Travel Round The World Is Our Own Filth, Thrown Into The Face Of Mankind.

Nor Must We Forget That In Science There Are No Final Truths.

Not Only Does A Journey Transport Us Over Enormous Distances, It Also Causes Us To Move A Few Degrees Up Or Down In The Social Scale. It Displaces Us Physically And Also For Better Or For Worse Takes Us Out Of Our Class Context, So That The Colour And Flavour Of Certain Places Cannot Be Dissociated From The Always Unexpected Social Level On Which We Find Ourselves In Experiencing Them.

With All Its Technical Sophistication, The Photographic Camera Remains A Coarse Device Compared To The Human Hand And Brain.