ABSTRACT
A little reflection shows that all the classifications ever made by man are arbitrary, artificial, and incorrect. But an equally simple reflection shows these same classifications to be useful and indispensable, and indeed unavoidable, because they arise out of an inborn tendency of our mind. For the will to classify is deeply rooted in the human being. The Greek architects and sculptors have been the teachers of thousands of years because they were masters of classification and proportion. Time is perhaps the most terrible of all the terrors with which mankind is surrounded — transient and uncanny, formless and unfathomable, a point of section between the two threatening uncertainties. There is the past, which no longer is and yet looms oppressively over our Now, and there is the future, which is not yet and nevertheless weighs heavily on our today; but the present we can never grasp.
