and tumble of the market place of experience. Put simply, what I am saying is this, any professional skill has to be used fairly continuously, or it atrophies. Intellectual beliefs, to which the mind alone gives assent, are so pale and shadowy by comparison, that they hardly merit the name belief at all. And dogma, or the irrational incantation of something out of the primeval forest, is spiritual darkness because it wholly refuses to be open to reason.

If Clausewitz is right that all inward thought is only habit, then reliance on dogma simply means that a person has bad habits. And nowhere is such a bad habit more dangerous, I should have thought, than in war. When seeking an indwelling with another, on the other hand, all inward thought is at risk, all beliefs are hazarded; so it follows that there is no room for dogma. If room is found for it, in the end it destroys the sense of communion.