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A letter
from an alumnus about the constancy of change
Abhi Raghunathan '02 in writing about university memorials (On
the Campus, March 27, 2002), notes about the constancy of change,
and that on the campus, "the sounds of construction are indistinguishable
from those of destruction". This casual observation strikes a chord
of profundity, because of course everything new must come at the expense
of the old that it displaces. The displacement can be as local as a house
going in where prior was only a wild woods, to the universal as when a
sun-centered theory of the world overtakes an earth-centered one. I suppose
this irony is the core of Hegel's theory of the dialectic, but I must
confess some ignorance of all things Hegelian. However, I thank Mr. Raghunathan
for uncovering the obvious where before it was not so certain, and perhaps
obscure.
Rocky Semmes '79
Alexandria, Va.
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