The dancing step, the telling gesture, memory in movement; we can imagine the joy, the ritual, the sacrifice to God in our days cave-safe, firelit some 40,000 years before this day, creatures as now we are yet without advantage, without these past millennia of humane tradition, the gift of thought, the accumulation of wisdom that…
Perhaps, while on tour through what has become Europe, or perhaps in close study of history, or maybe upon the occasion of visits to museums of art and of curiosity you have discovered the diligent, passionate work of the cudgel men, those who knock the heads off of Pagans, off fellow Christians, off the body…
Preface III: Our Classical Heritage A Brief, “Very Brief” History of Ideas *** WHERE TO BEGIN? Picture in your mind’s eye—that eye of the soul which knows not only everything beneath the sun, but everything beyond the sun (from eternities before time, into eternities past the ending of time)—a statue by Polykleitos, let us say,…
Preface III: Our Classical Heritage Part II: Classive and Progressive, Considered * * * WHEN MIGHT WASHINGTON, D.C. CEASE TO BE OUR ARCHITECTURE and monuments are, in truth, in fact, us. When we cease to be who we are, our statues, memorials and monuments will be removed to museums —Museum, from Mouseῖon, “a seat, a…
Preface III: Our Classical Heritage Part I: Where We Are * * * IN PREPERATION for Quæ Sumus, I wondered what might profit you most. Then too, knowing of the common interest in, well, the world around us, I looked about to find some topic on which to dilate. Here, just now, I am in…
