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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

They are big stones. Enormous sculptures and visual art. Often, as in the case of the giant menhirs at Kernario in Brittany they stand like sentinels as part of a vast megalithic complex. It has been assumed that our civilization … Continue reading

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A PIED PIETER OF THE LESS DROLL

In Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s picturizations of proverbs and parables, the Netherlandish peasant is employed only as a pantominist, but in the paintings of peasant life he comes into his own as Bruegel’s symbol of significant man. People who are … Continue reading

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CONSEQUENCES OF AN OVERNIGHT SENSATION

”Everything is good as it leaves the hand of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hand of man” . That celebrated opening sentence of ”Emile” contains all of Rousseau’s thought in germ. All the conclusions he reached , no matter … Continue reading

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