Ezra Pound on Against the Day?

[Mark Kohut]

 In A Visiting Card (1942), Pound described historical events and
conditions as products generated through the interaction of the two
antithetical forces:

We find two forces in history: one that divides, shatters, and kills,
and one that contemplates the unity of the mystery...

There is the force that falsifies, the force that destroys every
delineated symbol, dragging man into a maze of abstract arguments,
destroying not one but every religion.

But the images of the gods, or Byzantine mosaics, move the soul to
contemplation and preserve the tradition of the undivided light.
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