The first man and the company man: The common good, transcendence, and mediating institutions

An enormous oblivion spread over them, and actually that was what this land gave out, what fell from the sky with the night over the three men returni ng to the village, their hearts made anxious by the approach of night, fill ed with that dread that seizes all men in Africa when the sudden evening de scends on the sea, on the rough mountains and the high plateaus, the same h oly dread that has the same effect on the slopes of Delphi's mountain, wher e it makes temples and altars emerge. But on the land of Africa the temples have been destroyed, and all that is left is this soft unbearable burden o f the heart.(1).