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We Jews are a parable people. 'I am sure I do understand . . . said Clotilde, catching her breath to be conscientious, lest he should ask her for an elucidation. 'Provided always that the metaphor be not like the metaphysician's treatise on Nature: a torch to see the sunrise! You were going to add? 'I was going to say, I think I understand, but you run away with me still.
From time to time I have put down in a notebook the impressions made upon me by the scenes through which I have passed. I have long hesitated whether to let any of my notes appear before the public. My fear has been that they were too subjective, to use the metaphysician's term, that I have seen myself reflected in Nature, and not the true aspects of Nature as she was meant to be understood.
Calhoun, "tall, careworn, with fevered brow, haggard cheek, and eye intensely gazing, looking as if he were dissecting the last and newest abstraction which sprung from some metaphysician's brain, and muttering to himself, in half uttered words, 'This is indeed a crisis!" The best word-portrait, however, was that of Senator Buchanan, whose manner and voice were humorously imitated while he was described as presenting his Democratic associates to the President.
Again the enveloping darkness frogs, toads, snakes, faded in its depths and with returning light Swedenborg was once more alone in the room. Small wonder that the remaining hours of the day were spent in fruitless cogitation of this weird and disagreeable experience which far transcended metaphysician's normal ken.
Then did he stoop and kiss her roundly on the lips. For the remainder of this tale, I could wish for a pen supernally dipped, or for a metaphysician's plating to my vernacular, or for the linguistic patois of that land off somewhere to the west of Life. Or maybe just a neurologist's chart of Hester's nerve history would help.
In rare and isolated cases, it may really have happened that such a Will to Truth a certain extravagant and adventurous pluck, a metaphysician's ambition of the forlorn hope has participated therein: that which in the end always prefers a handful of "certainty" to a whole cartload of beautiful possibilities; there may even be puritanical fanatics of conscience, who prefer to put their last trust in a sure nothing, rather than in an uncertain something.
There is here a neglected but very interesting field for the metaphysician's efforts.
We Jews are a parable people. 'I am sure I do understand... said Clotilde, catching her breath to be conscientious, lest he should ask her for an elucidation. 'Provided always that the metaphor be not like the metaphysician's treatise on Nature: a torch to see the sunrise! You were going to add? 'I was going to say, I think I understand, but you run away with me still.
Glory to the metaphysician's all-perfect theory! When they can tell me why, at a bright banquet, the thought of death has flashed across my mind, who fear not death; when they can tell me why, at the burial of my beloved friend, when my very heart-strings seemed bursting, my sorrow has been mocked by the involuntary remembrance of ludicrous adventures and grotesque tales; when they can tell me why, in a dark mountain pass, I have thought of an absent woman's eyes; or why, when in the very act of squeezing the third lime into a beaker of Burgundy cup, my memory hath been of lean apothecaries and their vile drugs; why then, I say again, glory to the metaphysician's all-perfect theory! and fare you well, sweet world, and you, my merry masters, whom, perhaps, I have studied somewhat too cunningly: nosce teipsum shall be my motto.
So far, we are justified in saying that we stand on the ground of indisputable fact. It is no mere hypothesis of science, still less a figment of the metaphysician's imagination, or an outpouring of a poet's inspiration, that Permanence is the indispensable postulate of the commonest facts of material existence.
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