{The Romantic Wilderness [in Islam and elsewhere]}[11th April 1991]

[Redbook9:77][19910411:0935o]{The Romantic Wilderness [in Islam and elsewhere]}[11th April 1991]

19910411.0935

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The description of the Arab genius* contrasts interestingly ** with the characteristics of the Islamic religion – but there is a parallel with the British Celtic races, characterised as imaginative and (by more stolid citizens) illogical, and their relatively recent adoption of the harder extremes of Christianity, such as Calvinism.

There is another parallel: the Wilderness, in which (desert or mountain) both Arab and British Celt lived. I know from experience that such Wilderness both unlocks the imaginative well-springs of the mind, yet [sic] requires greater*** self-discipline (in work, for example) if one is to live off it.**** Perhaps Islam and Chapel alike are evolutionary cultural responses to an environmental stimulus which if unchecked by them, threatens physical survival? There are, of course, at once numerous exceptions....

*[See last previous ts entry]

**{But see [[[Redbook9:102][19910414:1104]{Islamic Art – The Word (2)}[14th April 1991],]] 102}

***[than do easier lands, presumably]

****(ref ↑ Vol[ume](s) [] ….)

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