CANTO XXII - Obelisk to Sapience ~
The entire sum of goods at an economizing individual’s
command for the satisfaction of his needs, we call his
property. His property is not, however, an arbitrarily
combined quantity of goods, but a direct reflection of his
needs, an integrated whole, no essential part of which can be
diminished or increased without affecting realization of the
end it serves.
Carl Menger (economist, 1840-1921)
Principles of Economics (book, 1871)
O the facility of the freedom-frame of liberty
Yet its intensity by serenity per natural rigidity
Due to causality unavoidable, thence empirical
Self-evidently logical, an obelisk to sapience
Risking by valiance for shifts of paradigms
Shattering myths and rhymes, popular chants
Bolstered by modular cants and rants ascribed
Prescribing utopias dreamt due to phobias’ frets
Consequently, the equaling of innate inequalities
By the un-equaling of opportunities per skin
Either her or him, lines thin amid those meager
Or supposed leisure, yet as tines, fines measured
Begin and end, demarcating then delineating
Ample for some, or mere sample, ever a ransom
Random assessments for diadems and vestments
Headbands and testaments for swirling whirls
Of boys and girls adorned, unfurled per uniform
As propaganda posters, or as boasters to foster
Contrary to the luster tenacious of logic’s worth
Lodged at birth within inner berth, so to surge
On verge, smitten between rewritten volumes
Verses solemn while stanzas meander along
Traversing the familiar exploratory planes
Deliberating gains by mysteries and discoveries
The toss and mix of axiom, theory, and myth
Until all ink persists on the final vernacular page
Where the mind ascends above the ecstasy
And the warm soul enraptures beyond the lucidity
O the human faction’s consequential action
Per daily ardent coition of reason and passion
An integrated whole, by hands of mind and soul
The entire sum of goods at an economizing individual’s
command for the satisfaction of his needs, we call his
property. His property is not, however, an arbitrarily
combined quantity of goods, but a direct reflection of his
needs, an integrated whole, no essential part of which can be
diminished or increased without affecting realization of the
end it serves.
Carl Menger (economist, 1840-1921)
Principles of Economics (book, 1871)
O the facility of the freedom-frame of liberty
Yet its intensity by serenity per natural rigidity
Due to causality unavoidable, thence empirical
Self-evidently logical, an obelisk to sapience
Risking by valiance for shifts of paradigms
Shattering myths and rhymes, popular chants
Bolstered by modular cants and rants ascribed
Prescribing utopias dreamt due to phobias’ frets
Consequently, the equaling of innate inequalities
By the un-equaling of opportunities per skin
Either her or him, lines thin amid those meager
Or supposed leisure, yet as tines, fines measured
Begin and end, demarcating then delineating
Ample for some, or mere sample, ever a ransom
Random assessments for diadems and vestments
Headbands and testaments for swirling whirls
Of boys and girls adorned, unfurled per uniform
As propaganda posters, or as boasters to foster
Contrary to the luster tenacious of logic’s worth
Lodged at birth within inner berth, so to surge
On verge, smitten between rewritten volumes
Verses solemn while stanzas meander along
Traversing the familiar exploratory planes
Deliberating gains by mysteries and discoveries
The toss and mix of axiom, theory, and myth
Until all ink persists on the final vernacular page
Where the mind ascends above the ecstasy
And the warm soul enraptures beyond the lucidity
O the human faction’s consequential action
Per daily ardent coition of reason and passion
An integrated whole, by hands of mind and soul
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Copyright © 2016-2017 by D.C. Quillan Stone
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