/ by Edward Mullany

Now, some might argue that such ‘transcendentals’ are relative (as opposed to absolute), and that what a particular culture regards as ‘true’, for example, another might consider ‘untrue’. But cultural differences, while real, are never profound enough to sustain such an argument if those differences are looked at long enough, or in a sufficiently variegated light. Because the differences themselves have more to do with custom and with habit than with value; over time they will slip away, to reveal an abstract truth that is always the same. Even if that truth can be ‘felt’ more readily than it can be ‘articulated’.