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Image alt-text continued: ...with the grain. The house-holder’s servants ask him whether they should try to weed the field, and he says, “No, lest in gathering the weeds, you root up the wheat along with them.” They can be separated, he says, only “at the harvest.” In everyday life, the wheat and the weeds are inextricable and, often, in-distinguishable. Only at the harvest, the moment Illich calls apocalypse, will the meaning be apparent. ‘Ivan Illich, An Intellectual Journey’, David Cayley. Quote tweet: Nick Routledge History tends to the fuller and fuller revelation of the mystery of evil. History, therefore, follows an apocalyptic logic. Not apocalyptic in the sense in which the word is used colloquially to refer to catastrophes but in the word’s original sense of revelation or unveiling.