 The Full Count of the Times is essentially a work of universal history. It is devoted to exploring the distinctive social orientations and formations and their enduring components and development. It claims to identify the past elements of recurrent experience, the paths of ‘future-directed’ events and their mutual interplay or strengthening in the formation of world-transforming institutions. In particular, Rosenstock-Huessy dwells upon how the discrete forms of antiquity and the peoples of tribes, empires, the Greek city states, and the future orientated people of the prophets (the Jews) formed a hitherto unknown kind of social tensional ‘unity’ through their absorption and reconfiguration within Western Christian lands . He then seeks to identify how that tensionality that had been formed through the presence and activity of the Church subsequently broke out and developed, initially in Europe, into nations and then, through the world wars, the planet as whole.