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Relating to place/work/folk.

On reverse, several small diagrams, including swastikas and a valley section.

Mention of Aristotle, Bacon, Comte, Spencer, Kant and Plato.

Manuscript.

Manuscript.

On reverse of notepaper for Summer Meeting at King’s College, July 12-31 (no year mentioned).

Manuscript

Showing [Olympus] as a tower and domed temple on top of a hill.

Label: ‘William Hume, 14 Lothian Street, Edinburgh’.

Various diagrams, relating to ‘Course of Life’, ‘Curves’, ‘Periods’, ‘Crises’ and ‘Phases’.

‘As with “Stone Age” we distinguish (A) Paleolithic →, (B) Neolithic: so with ”Industrial Age”, we distinguish (A) Paleotechnic →, (B) Neotechnic’ .

Comparing ‘Christian View’ of difficulties of transitions, sins and rites of passage with ‘Hellenic View’ of normal phases and rites of expression.

‘Phases as Norms of Life’; Super-norms/Norms/Sub-norms; ‘Contrast of Sexes’.

Showing a [sculpture or architectural detail] of a woman, possibly a goddess , playing a harp.

Endorsed: ‘Definé par Bartolini. Gravé par Pierre Fontana de Rome’.
[Possibly Pierre Fontaine (1763-1853), French architect and decorator, who lived and worked in Rome at various points throughout his career].

Volumes and numbers unknown.