"We are Mystics, ever eagerly seeking a solution of unpleasant facts.
We are Women & Men of Science, ever eagerly acquiring pertinent facts.
We are Sceptics, ever eagerly examining those facts.
We are Philosophers, ever eagerly classifying and co-ordinating those well-criticised facts.
We are Epicureans, ever eagerly enjoying the unification of those facts.
We are Philanthropists, ever eagerly transmitting our knowledge of those facts to others.
Further, we are Syncretists, taking truth from all systems, ancient and modern; and Eclectics, ruthlessly discarding the inessential factors in any one system, however perfect."
what truth is it that you doubt, I wonder...
ReplyDeleteAmbassadors from lands
ReplyDeletewithin skin's seas
Coming at the call
and bearing scrolls of plans
I wonder at the tales they tell.
Are the courts of my being
ready
to deal with the intrigue?