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drive to participation has ended adolescence, and every
American home has its Berlin wall.
Toynbee is very generous in providing examples of widely
varied challenge and collapse, and is especially apt in pointing
to the frequent and futile resort to futurism and archaism as
strategies of encountering radical change. But to point back
to the day of the horse or to look forward to the coming of
antigravitational vehicles is not an adequate response to the
challenge of the motor-car. Yet these two uniform ways of
backward and forward looking are habitual ways of avoiding
the discontinuities of present experience with their demand
for sensitive inspection and appraisal. Only the dedicated
artist seems to have the power for encountering the present
actuality.