CANTO XX - Fitted and Fixed as Iron and Steel
All things are subject to the law of cause and effect. This great
principle knows no exception, and we would search in vain in the
realm of experience for an example to the contrary.
Carl Menger (economist, 1840-1921)
Principles of Economics (book, 1871)
O the rough stones in depth’s nook and niche
Bereft not in rifts, nor wept by the shifts of most
Keen betwixt coasts, between banks and shores
Some along dampened shoals, in moistened folds
Wallowing, nay, furrowing in lucid shallows
Where axioms be followed, if truth be caught
Coddled by thought, thence modeled or not
Yet fitted and fixed as iron and steel as when
From zephyr to vapor until precipitating labor
Arranging macrocosms of hanging microcosms
With ganging rostrums of starters then barters
Martyrs of art as well, courtiers of mart and still
As Pheidippides, Sisyphus’ infinite acclivities
In turn, activities selective by nativities pensive
Continuances of this over that, in lieu of lack
Abeyances of that rather this, bliss, or to desist
To insist hues mellow above indigo or yellow
Each by one’s candor, not politicos’ standards
So imposition’s complexity mostly supposed
Ere to liberation’s simplicity rarely proposed
All things are subject to the law of cause and effect. This great
principle knows no exception, and we would search in vain in the
realm of experience for an example to the contrary.
Carl Menger (economist, 1840-1921)
Principles of Economics (book, 1871)
O the rough stones in depth’s nook and niche
Bereft not in rifts, nor wept by the shifts of most
Keen betwixt coasts, between banks and shores
Some along dampened shoals, in moistened folds
Wallowing, nay, furrowing in lucid shallows
Where axioms be followed, if truth be caught
Coddled by thought, thence modeled or not
Yet fitted and fixed as iron and steel as when
From zephyr to vapor until precipitating labor
Arranging macrocosms of hanging microcosms
With ganging rostrums of starters then barters
Martyrs of art as well, courtiers of mart and still
As Pheidippides, Sisyphus’ infinite acclivities
In turn, activities selective by nativities pensive
Continuances of this over that, in lieu of lack
Abeyances of that rather this, bliss, or to desist
To insist hues mellow above indigo or yellow
Each by one’s candor, not politicos’ standards
So imposition’s complexity mostly supposed
Ere to liberation’s simplicity rarely proposed
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
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