 Slaughter emphasized that the significance of this work is not its size or the scope of its tens of thousands of references, impressive though these are.It is rather in the nature of what has been attempted.Those numerous accompanying texts, he said, are good enough to be published separately because they contain highly cogent observations on the "global problematique", commentaries on the work of numerous great thinkers from a wide variety of fields, and an impressive array of insights about the epistemology, symbolism, metaphysics, metaphors and linguistic representations of the subject.