older philosophy, a microcosm. The systematic spirit, narrow and withdrawn “abs-tract”) from the sensual, is an autumnal and passing phenomenon belonging to the ripest conditions of a Culture. Linked with the _city_, into which its life is more and more herded, it comes and goes with the city. In the Classical world, there is science only from the 6th-century Ionians to the Roman period, but there was art in the Classical world for just as long as there was existence. Once more, a paradigm may help in elucidation. _Soul_ _World_ Existence { potentiality → fulfilment → actuality { (_Life_) { becoming → the become Consciousness { direction extension { organic mechanical { symbol, portrait, number, notion. [Crossed ↓ downward ↓ arrows] { _History_ _Nature_ World-image { Rhythm, form. Tension, law. { Physiognomic. Systematic. { Facts Truths