Language
Any new language implies a new loyalty. (Rosenstock-Huessy, Time Bettering Days and Other Essays, 29)
Rosenstock-Huessy would equally say that a new loyalty or love is generative of a new self, new language, and new music. For example,
In any life of normal health, grace comes first and the law follows. Any loving couple goes through the acceptable year first and out of this perfect happiness the special law of this marriage is derived and developed. Fluid flesh and blood precedes, and ossification follows. Jesus is free grace and his church is lawful order. Life is a process of crystallization. Free, revolutionary inspiration precedes; evolution, lawful development, is derived from the previous revolution and ecstacy. (Ibid., 49)
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