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If, Then, This Civilization Is To Be Saved, If It Is Not To Be Submerged By Centuries Of Barbarism, But To Secure The Treasures Ofits Inheritance On New And More Stable Foundations, There Is Indeed Need For Those Now Living Fully To Realize How Far The Decay Has Already Progressed.

You Only Live A Short Time... And You Are Dead A Long Time.

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.

History, As The Study Of The Past, Makes The Coherence Of What Happened Comprehensible By Reducing Events To A Dramatic Pattern And Seeming Them In A Simple Form.

He Who Wishes To Maintain That The Past Of Mankind No Longer Has Any Absolute Value In Lifemust Also Be Ready To Deny His Ownlife Until The Present Moment, Indeed In Advance Until The Last Moment, As Worthless. He Who Realizes That Culture Is The Giving Of Form Will Also See That The Highest Forms That It Is Given To The Human Spirit To Recognize Have Always Been, Psychologically Considered, Such Evasions From The Present. Considerations Such As These Do Not At All Square With The Direction Of America's Mind.