The modern world has largely forgotten, and our educational systems ignore, the primary importance, in the evolution of man, of various types of symb… - Herbert Edward Read

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The modern world has largely forgotten, and our educational systems ignore, the primary importance, in the evolution of man, of various types of symbolic communication—the communication embodied in gesture, ritual, dance, music myth, and poetic metaphor. All these modes of expression constitute a language of feeling, a non-discursive form of thought, absolutely essential to our individual development and to the unity of social life.