¶ Teleology (3)
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Index Entry
Teleology:
"universal status quo.
"The consumption and digestion of facts and statistics is somewhat like eating and chewing hay and thistles. Their is nourishment in them in their raw state, to be sure, but a cow is needed to convert them into milk. Likewise the average human mind needs an intermediary–a teleologist–to convert vital factors into digestibles for his objective use.
“To the student of teleologic design, particularly as applied to shelter service, we offer a ‘cowing’ of the vital factors of man’s estate at this moment of ken. Only by awareness of this estate can the teleologist interpolate therefrom an adequate industrial design of world-encompassing shelter service, which will be so utilitarianly adequate and harmonic as to insure man’s irrepressible appetence for such shelter service’s industrial reproduction.”
¶ Citations
- NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.47, 1938
