¶ Artifacts
Index Entry
Artifacts:
“More than a third of a century ago I became intuitively excited by the idea that, whereas I had been brought up in a world in which humanity spoke about the tools it used and the machinery of the new industrialization as artificial, these artefacts and tools, if seen from far enough away in time, might be realised to be an actual an integral part of the pattern Man. So I began to feel that the word ‘artificial’ which I had heard so much of, was a word that was obsolete and could be discarded. I saw that everything I was experiencing couldn’t be experienced unless nature permitted it, and it was all part of the extraordinary pattern of the Universe, and therefore every bit of it was, I might say, not artificial but natural.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Dialogue with John Donat in “The Oxford Reader,” 1971, p. 874. From “The Listener,” 26 Sep’68
