[561] which he puts against other elements in order to break down a fixed authoritarian system. On the other hand, the traditionalist who is willing to maintain all the traditions doesn't know that his act of maintaining them is already an act of transforming them, namely of taking them into the category of the situation out of which he wants to reestablish them. So we have here the situation that, since there cannot be authority in principle^a but there must be authority in fact, so there cannot be a tradition which is immovable, but there must be tradition even for those who rebel against a fixed tradition. They can rebel against it only in the power of elements which are present IN the tradition. This, I hope, gives some answers. Now I will then come next Tuesday to the sociological-political realm more directly because Thursday is an unknown holiday [i.e. Patriot's Day - smiling - laughter], but we still have three hours, which will give us ample possibility . . .