ABSTRACT

Every real life or death affects us and is affected by us as nature, spirit, culture, or soul. Philosophical psychology accepts what people call a real human being; but in reality, this is just one of the spiritual forms of unlocking his secret. Only times and spaces serve as higher-ranking forms of reality—and they might better be called forms of acting. They furnish the basic categories for associations as well as individuals. The two time scales of war and work also frame two opposing social structures. The order of the army and the order of industry are required, like all groups, to staff two spaces and two times so as to incarnate themselves. For in every transformation, the spatial creature man steps into a temporal space: into a generation by marriage, into a century by death-defying service, into the hour by work, into political time through mass movements. These temporal spaces, taken together, comprise the spectrum of full time.