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Updated: June 21, 2025
But for all that, we do not deny that a picture may be a work of genius, because any madman could destroy it in less time than it takes to suggest the possibility. Much is said and written about the duality that is in us; and many of us are Manichean without knowing technically what the term means. The two parts in the same self are represented as East and West, and "never the twain shall meet."
Has not the idea of the duality of God and the Universe been brushed aside, and is not the principle of unity, /monisme/, becoming more and more evident unity leading to solidarity, and the sole law of life proceeding by evolution from the first point of the ether that condensed to create the world?
Incapable of being gazed at, it is subtle as the edge of the razor, and grosser than mountains. Free from all kinds of duality, it is manifest as the universe and all-pervading. Men of learning say that it is without any change, except in the language used to describe it. They are emancipated that are acquainted with That in which this universe is established."
And as soon as Leo became pope in the difficult situation bequeathed by Pius IX, the duality of his nature appeared: on one hand was the firm guardian of dogmas, on the other the supple politician resolved to carry conciliation to its utmost limits.
An arbitrary assumption is never fair to all any of the time, or to anyone all the time. Many will resent the abrupt separation that a theory of duality in music suggests and say that these general subdivisions are too closely inter-related to be labeled decisively "this or that."
Nature indeed, before it came into her fickle head to make two of them, had in all probability intended these little sisters "little cherries on one stalk" to be but one; and they could only be said not to be one, because of their bodies being two a circumstance of no great importance, for, in spite of the duality of body, the spirit that animated them was a unity, and as we know from an old philosopher called Plato, the spirit is really the human creature, the flesh and bones constituting the body being nothing more than a mere husk intended at the end to feed worms.
His very genius came from the duality of his nature: behind the chemist was a social dreamer, hungering for justice and capable of the greatest love.
From unity grows duality, that is, nature divides into spirit and matter, into active and passive, necessity and freedom. The divided returns through trinity to unity. In alchemy we have the symbol REBIS, the hermaphrodite with the two heads.
The bodily temptations are absent, but there is still that which lay behind the bodily frailties curiosity, love of sensation, excitement, desire; the strong duality of nature the knowledge of duty on the one hand and the indolent shrinking from performance that is all there; there is the same sense of isolation, and the same need for patient endeavour as upon earth.
It is necessary, it is august and it is reasonable that the great story of our lives also should be accomplished and should reach a term: and yet there is something in that hidden duality of ours which makes the prospect of so natural a conclusion terrible, and it is the better judgment of mankind and the mature conclusion of civilisations in their age that there is not only a conclusion here but something of an adventure also.
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