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Science, Unguided By A Higher Abstract Principle, Freely Hands Over Its Secrets To A Vastly Developed And Commercially Inspired Technology, And The Latter, Even Less Restrained By A Supreme Culture Saving Principle, With The Means Of Science Creates All The Instruments Of Power Demanded From It By The Organization Of Might.

Whether The Aim Is In Heaven Or On Earth, Wisdom Or Wealth, The Essential Condition Of Its Pursuit And Attainment Is Always Security And Order.

Without Claiming Superiority Of Intellectual Over Visual Understanding, One Is Nevertheless Bound To Admit That The Cinema Allowsa Number Of æsthetic-intellectual Means Of Perception To Remain Unexercised Which Cannot But Lead To A Weakening Of Judgment.

You Can Deny, If You Like, Nearly All Abstractions: Justice, Beauty, Truth, Goodness, Mind, God. You Can Deny Seriousness, But Not Play.

The Art Of Watching Has Become Mere Skill At Rapid Apperception And Understanding Of Continuously Changing Visual Images. The Younger Generation Has Acquired This Cinematic Perception To An Amazing Degree.