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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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...The modern fading of interest in religion.
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A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.
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...We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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The rhythm is then the life, in the sense in which it can be said to be included within nature.
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Identification of rhythm as the causal counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.