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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.”