Word: nexus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the late J. B. Bury, that to understand the causes of civilization and to direct its future development, the laws of its past movement must be ascertained from history with scientific precision. Assuming that civilization always depends on communal effort, the author argues that emotion is the only nexus powerful enough to hold men together. The emotions that have united human societies in the past he analyzes into two categories: patriarchal, which makes for perpendicular ordering of individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal relationship, as in American democracy at its inception. For modern times...
...Myth. Read here* a myth which, with or without origins in fact, is one of the most delectable that ever issued from the seven hills of Rome. It is a myth with no central events, being a nexus of personalities?a body of legend attaching to five extraordinary women and an ancient cardinal, whose life apart from and above modern Roman society and whose peculiar aptitudes, including the superlative one of appreciating one another, have earned them a title that falls sinister on western ears, the Cabala (clique...