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Northrop Frye

Canadian Critic

Born: Jul 14, 1912

Died: Jan 23, 1991

Ancient Culture Money Religion Service Understanding

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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. Northrop Frye

People King Stupid Sheep Back Easily Ancient Fact Particular Like Perhaps Most Metaphor Due Shepherd His Affectionate Goes Egypt Human Gregarious Being Convention Formed Use Societies

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye

Service Religion Culture Understanding Approach Worship Destroy Object Tendency Idolatry Intellectual Replace Essential Forms Present

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. Northrop Frye

Culture Possible Morally Both Acceptable Limits Essence Transcends Naturally Imaginative

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. Northrop Frye

Man Book Machine Invented Most Efficient Ever

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