History Can Predict Nothing Except That Great

No Other Discipline Has Its Portals So Wide Open To The General Public As History.

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.

Play: It Is An An Activity Which Proceeds Within Certain Limits Of Time And Space, In A Visible Order, According To Rules Freely Accepted, And Outside The Sphere Of Necessity Or Material Utility. The Play-mood Is One Of Rapture And Enthusiasm, And Is Sacred Or Festive In Accordance With The Occasion. A Feeling Of Exaltation And Tension Accompanies The Action.

The Things Which Can Make Life Enjoyable Remain The Same. They Are, Now As Before, Reading, Music, Fine Arts, Travel, The Enjoyment Of Nature, Sports, Fashion, Social Vanity (knightly Orders, Honorary Offices, Gatherings) And The Intoxication Of The Senses.

Do You Know Anything That In All Its Innocence Is More Humiliating Than The Funny Pages Of A Sunday Newspaper In America?