A 1st assumption is, that those motions actually shape up into a direction as profound as the change of attention which we call the Renaissance, but that the present change is the exact inverse, a contrary Renaissance, it being understood, by authority of William Blake, that a true contrary is never a negation. The 2nd assumption: that the place to look for our equivalents is the Middle Ages and (watch it) that earlier Middle Age, Homer's and Anaximander's.
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