Unchanged By Change
UNTIL the Industrial Revolution the way in which people of any given culture lived changed so slowly that a man, thinking of his greatgrandchildren, could imagine them as living more or less the same kind of life with the same kind of needs and satisfactions as himself. Today, it is impossible for any of us to imagine what life will be like even 20 years from now. One thing the masterpieces of the past have to teach us is that change is not as fatal to a genuine work of art as we are inclined to fear.’ Our world is already utterly different from those in which they were created; yet we can still comprehend and enjoy them. They have permanence.—The poet W. H. Auden in a 8.8. C. talk.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31083, 11 June 1966, Page 12
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133Unchanged By Change Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31083, 11 June 1966, Page 12
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