"Everything cultural is fabricated and given meaning by the mind, a meaning that was not given by physical nature. Culture is in this sense ‘supernatural,’ and all systematization of culture have in their end the same goal: to raise men above nature, to assure them that in some way their lives count in the universe more than merely physical things count."
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Nico Rutten 