Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.

For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.