place.” (p. 95)

The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties 
after the interiorization of the alphabet.

*     Homogeneity, uniformity, repeatability, these are basic 
component notes of a visual world newly emergent from an 
audile-tactile matrix. Such components the Greeks used as a 
bridge from present to past, but not from present to future. 
Van Groningen writes (p. 95): “The Greek knows and the 
Oriental knows not, how uncertain the future is; an undisturbed 
past and a prosperous present are in no way a guarantee of a 
happy future. So we can only value a human life . . . when it has 
become a complete past, at man’s death, as with Tellus the 
Athenian.”