Essay I: The Elements and their Machinery

The goal of this essay is to illustrate the pendulous nature of the ethos and how it seems to swing from and to spiritual and rational cosmologies. Special emphasis is put on the history of cosmology, Parmenides, Heraclitus and the Elements.

Essay II: Correlations Between Cosmological and Socio-political Thought

The goal of this essay is to illustrate the positive correlation between cosmological thought and socio-political thought. It is argued that the structure of cosmological thought trickles down to influence the structure of sociopolitical thought; which can spring back to influence cosmological thought, as it has done with Quantum Cosmology. Slight emphasis is put on the 
pendulous nature of the ethos; it swings from and to spiritual and rational cosmologies.