ABSTRACT
Holland was created and kept in existence by the sedimentation of the great rivers. There was a natural balance of dunes and deltas, of tides and drainage. Temporary flooding of certain areas of the delta was a part of that balance. And in this land could live and thrive a strong branch of the human race. Primitive tribes consider headhunting to be a process of cleansing, and took the greatest pleasure in practising it on the most developed people. This is based on the deep philosophical insight that in nature greater differentiation goes hand-in-hand with graver damnation; this insight resides in their hearts, not in their heads. The immediate companion of the intellect is language. From life in the intellect follows the impossibility of any form of direct communication with others instinctively by gesture or looks, or even more spiritually through the separation of distance.
