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Universal History 1967
Volume 32. Argo, 1996.
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A universal history, when it is taught, can have only this one purpose, to implant in you the power to overcome your private times, your private rhythms, and to share that rhythm which makes you brothers with the people 7,000 years back. History should make you indifferent to your contemporaries, and should make you very intimate with the people of all other times. If it doesn’t do this, history hasn’t done its purpose. The brotherhood of man through time is equally important as the brotherhood of the ladies and men today in the barbershop, or on the street.
...Real time is only a time which is able to surround, to embrace, to contain, to condense all the times.
...From Easter to All Saints, a thousand years were spent with inculcating into the tribes, the empires, the cities of the Greeks, and the Jewish priesthood the verity that the same man had to be a prophet, and an ancestor, and a poet, and a priest. And that these four great creations of antiquity could not lie separate...
March 16, 1967
This lecture series explores many of Rosenstock-Huessy’s issues. Examples would be speech and naming, the central nature of Christianity in history and ethics. It also covers creativity, the development of human culture, how we become enslaved by certain types of thinking, and the development of one’s soul. (See the Universal History general comment, page 17.) Twenty 1-hour lectures.
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