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After centuries of emphasis on the “life of the mind,” the Romantics decided it was due time for the “life of the loins” to be given respect. Ok, ok, so they wanted to bring heart back into religion and all that, but surely sometimes those two motivations were conflated. Damn amygdala!

I am all for “bringing heaven to earth,” and think there is something very good and significant about time, and history, and human passion and action. But, in my cynical Freudian modes (luckily they aren’t too often anymore) I do wonder if it isn’t just all about deifying sex (and beer, thrill, and sensible beauties).

But, then again, why wouldn’t we want to justify those things (or, at the very least, find a proper place for them)?

Deum et animam scire cupio; nihil aliud. But how do we know God and Soul?