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     An historical account purporting to describe, for
example, the Making of Victorian Sexuality, is a reminder of
the extent to which our intellectual activity is reflected in
and is dependent on the language, the words and phrases in
which we are able to express what we mean. This circumstanec
is especially apparant when one considers the relationships,
defined by sex or otherwise, between human beings. The way we
think about such relationships and the conclusions to which
we come are inseparable from the language and its words that
are the indispensable elements of thought. The Greeks had
three terms, eros, agape and philia for experiences for which
the English and the Germans have only one, love or Liebe.  A
broader spectrum of descriptive terms would make possible a
more sensitive interpretation and a more articulate
understanding of the relationships of human beings one with
another.

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Copyright 2006, Ernst Jochen Meyer
