...least in its higher actualities, it craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past, with its familiarities and its loved ones. It...facts— of friendship, and love, and old association. Yet conjointly with this terror, the present as mere unrelieved preservation of the past assumes the...

...least in its higher actualities, it craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past, with its familiarities and its loved ones. It...of the joy of the new years is the hope of the old rouYid of seasons, with their stable facts—of friendship, and love, and old association. Yet conjointly...

...least in its higher actualities, it craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past, with its familiarities and its loved ones. It seeks escape from time in its character of "perpetual perishing." Part of the joy of the new year is the hope of the old round of seasons, with...

...Whitehead's sober musing that the world "craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past, with its familiarities and its loved ones. It...from time in its character of 'perpetually perishing' " (481). If, as readers, we follow Gardner all the way to these pinnacles of metaphysical wisdom there...

...least in its higher actualities, it craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past, with its familiarities and its loved ones. It seeks escape from time in its character of "perpetual perishmg."84 Further, The most general formulation of the problem is the question whether...