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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415783" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Hermann Stoffkraft, Ph.D., the Hero of a Recent Work Called Paradoxical Philosophy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A paradoxical ode, after Shelley.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My soul is an entangled knot,<br>Upon a liquid vortex wrought<br>By Intellect, in the Unseen residing,<br>And thine cloth like a convict sit,<br>With marlinspike untwisting it,<br>Only to find its knottiness abiding;<br>Since all the tools for its untying<br>In four-dimensioned space are lying<br>Wherein thy fancy intersperses<br>Long avenues of universes,<br>While Klein and Clifford fill the void<br>With one finite, unbounded homaloid,<br>And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when thy Science lifts her pinions<br>In Speculation’s wild dominions,<br>We treasure every dictum thou emittest,<br>While down the stream of Evolution<br>We drift, expecting no solution<br>But that of the survival of the fittest.<br>Till, in the twilight of the gods,<br>When earth and sun are frozen clods,<br>When, all its energy degraded,<br>Matter to æther shall have faded;<br>We, that is, all the work we’ve done,<br>As waves in æther, shall for ever run<br>In ever-widening spheres through heavens beyond the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great Principle of all we see,<br>Unending Continuity!<br>By thee are all our angles sweetly rounded,<br>By thee are our misfits adjusted,<br>And as I still in thee have trusted,<br>So trusting, let me never be confounded!<br>Oh never may direct Creation<br>Break in upon my contemplation;<br>Still may thy causal chain, ascending,<br>Appear unbroken and unending,<br>While Residents in the Unseen—<br>Æons and Emanations—intervene,<br>And from my shrinking soul the Unconditioned screen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Clerk+Maxwell">James Clerk Maxwell</a><div class=q>
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My soul is an entangled knot,
Upon a liquid vortex wrought
By Intellect, in the Unseen residing,
And thine cloth like a convict sit,
With marlinspike untwisting it,
Only to find its knottiness abiding;
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