CANTO X - The Heart and Art of Harmony
If we now proceed to consider the immediate interest of the consumer,
we shall find that it is in perfect harmony with the general interest,
with all that the welfare of society calls for.
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (economist, 1801-1850)
The Bastiat Collection (book)
Noting and toting the heart and art of cogency
Solely by palpability and clarity of actuality
As per discerning fidelity of empirical observing
Dreaming, fantasizing, often desiring
Predetermining, preferring, usually realizing
Frolicking in the mounting, appearing as flaunting
Hence consummation fervid and procreation avid
Invention per innovation by conjuration mid liberation
Intangible abstractions shifting to contraptions
Stoic imagination, creative duration, projective ambition
Where passion and reason fornicate so to formulate
As revelry and civility intercourses each day
To saunter, amble, and sway the less-traveled way
Passion singly inflates primitive beasts to fight or fuck
Reason similarly elates hortative dandies in the muck
Stuck not in ruts upon the twain linked in brains
Liken workmen’s hoists and chains, or fain assemblies
Aligned, thus inline from self-interest’s comatose seed
Or the unsubsidized and grandiose greed
Metamorphosing to be, voluptuously free
Noting and toting the heart and art of harmony
By individuals’ autarchies in context vexed not
Via critics’ mix hexed and fraught of intercessions
Of legal aggressions serving venal concessions
Upon the plates garnished for the state’s paramours
If we now proceed to consider the immediate interest of the consumer,
we shall find that it is in perfect harmony with the general interest,
with all that the welfare of society calls for.
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (economist, 1801-1850)
The Bastiat Collection (book)
Noting and toting the heart and art of cogency
Solely by palpability and clarity of actuality
As per discerning fidelity of empirical observing
Dreaming, fantasizing, often desiring
Predetermining, preferring, usually realizing
Frolicking in the mounting, appearing as flaunting
Hence consummation fervid and procreation avid
Invention per innovation by conjuration mid liberation
Intangible abstractions shifting to contraptions
Stoic imagination, creative duration, projective ambition
Where passion and reason fornicate so to formulate
As revelry and civility intercourses each day
To saunter, amble, and sway the less-traveled way
Passion singly inflates primitive beasts to fight or fuck
Reason similarly elates hortative dandies in the muck
Stuck not in ruts upon the twain linked in brains
Liken workmen’s hoists and chains, or fain assemblies
Aligned, thus inline from self-interest’s comatose seed
Or the unsubsidized and grandiose greed
Metamorphosing to be, voluptuously free
Noting and toting the heart and art of harmony
By individuals’ autarchies in context vexed not
Via critics’ mix hexed and fraught of intercessions
Of legal aggressions serving venal concessions
Upon the plates garnished for the state’s paramours
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
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