3/20 To speak in a metaphor, we are going to have the primitive life of Genesis, then all that evolution after: Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and on to a new revelation of St.John.In this adolescence of Democracy the history of man is to be retraced, the same round on a higher spiral of life. The piles beneath the castle of our near-democratic arts were rotting for lack of folk-imagination. The Man with the Hoe had no spark in his brain. We can build the American soul broad-based from the foundations. |