... philosophical growth, beginning with the early Church Fathers and culminating in the great Scholastics But, at last, its generative ideas—sin and salvation, nature and grace, unity, infinity, and kingdom—had ... transformation as a natural activity, a high form of nervous response, characteristic of man among the animals The study of symbol and meaning is a starting-point of philosophy, not a derivative ... elaborate 'ape-ways' into which a newcomer is gradually acculturated, including among other patterns ways of using available instruments for reaching and climbing, a sort of rhythmic play or dance,...