 novel about this question, and maybe later
I will indicate the sources of my own particular currents of thought,
but for the moment I'll try think it through on my own without notes.

I do remember that Kant started something that seemed rather new,
to wit, asking &quot;what's the use, what's the good of a good idea?&quot;,
and suggesting that we can get some clue to why a concept has to
be invented in the first place, whose time might be inaccessible,
by looking at what function tends to keep it going and