Because he had left himself no room for any kind of
language of analogy, which might have allowed him to say how transcendent being shows itself in immanent existence while still
preserving its transcendence, and because, moreover, he had decided in advance that one can not
speak of being in other than temporal terms, he really could not escape lapsing into a certain fatalism regarding the history he described.
Today Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia are
speaking out about the need to protect,
preserve and strengthen traditional
languages.