5/29/2023 0 Comments The everlasting man bookExternally indeed the ancient world was still at its strongest it is always at that moment that the inmost weakness begins. Rome and Jerusalem and Athens and everything else were going down like a sea turned into a slow cataract. “All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time that the world could not save itself. Alone among the animals he feels the need of averting his thought from the root realities of his own bodily being of hiding them as in the presence of some higher possibility which creates the mystery of shame.” Alone among the animals, he is shaken with the beautiful madness called laughter as if he had caught sight of some secret in the very shape of the universe hidden from the universe itself. His mind has the same doubtful liberties and the same wild limitations. He is wrapped in artificial bandages called clothes he is propped on artificial crutches called furniture. He is at once a creator moving miraculous hands and fingers and a kind of cripple. He cannot sleep in his own skin he cannot trust his own instincts. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing alien habits from another land than of a mere growth of this one. “The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth.
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