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"To be subtle without ceasing to be simple; to be realist, yet not crude; to be minute at the right moment, but not all the time; to add here and there the little concrete touch, but only here and there–this, at their best, the Greeks achieved." F.

Pithecanthropus Pithecanthropus is the Ape Man. He's also known as Java Man and Peking Man. Latin-loving scientists call him Homo erectus, Homo modjokertenses, Meganthropus palaeojavanicus, Pithecanthropus robustus, and Pithecanthropus dubius. He is the creation of Dutch physician Eugene Dubois. In the 1890's, Dubois discovered a few

"It is aptly related of the great Dr. Clarke, that when in one of his leisure hours he was unbending himself with a few friends in the most playful and frolicksome manner, he observed Beau Nash approaching; upon which he suddenly stopped–'My boys (said he), let us

There are at least three doors of nomative perception: revelation, custom or common sense, and the insights of the seer. (Adapted from Russell Kirk)

"Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon." George MacDonald

I've always received the notion of "acoustic space" with a skeptical attitude. It's my standard knee-jerk disposition toward any notion coeval with the vacuous pop art concepts of the 1960s and 1970s. But I've warmed up to the concept now that I&

Maybe rock-n-roll has been wildly popular and rock stars the object of disproportionate admiration because art has dropped to a low level of appreciation in our culture. In a culture where art isn't appreciated, lower forms of art will step in to fulfill that primordial human need that

Top Ten List of Schallian Points found in The Unseriousness of Human Affairs: 10. Higher education is today largely a matter of private enterprise, good fortune, and reading things that few assign or praise. 9. We must first ask to see before we shall see. 8. We must philosophize with

Free Time True free time is time that is free from the exigencies of work and the requirement to play. In true free time the highest things are offered. Remember that before filling your weekends with incessant activities and your weekdays with twelve hours of work. And if you find

No person does anything unless it strikes them as good, but only a bestial person does something solely because it feels good.