Returns II

“All the most influential revolutions of sentiment or of ideologic formula to-day, in the world of science, sociology, psychology, are directed to some sort of return to the Past. The cult of the savage (and indirectly that of the Child) is a pointing backward to our human origins, either as individuals (when it takes the form of the child-cult) or as a race (when it takes the form of ‘the primitive’).” - Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book I, ch. VIII, p. 36.