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Science 10 April 1981:
Vol. 212. no. 4491, pp. 127 - 132
DOI: 10.1126/science.212.4491.127
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The Bridge of Language

Northrop Frye 1

1 University Professor and Professor of English at Victoria College and Chancellor of Victoria University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1K7

The elements of human culture, including literature and the sciences, grow out of a basis in social concern. As they develop, their inner structures begin to emerge and those practicing them make discoveries within those structures. When tensions arise with the concerns of society a divided loyalty arises. In the past, social concerns which resisted science or censored literature were usually wrong, but there are very intense concerns today, such as environmental pollution, which appear to be bringing us to a common meeting point.

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