A Man Contains All That Is Needed

The People Of Your World Became So Stupid And Rude That My Companions And I No Longer Enjoyed Teaching Them. You Must Surely Have Heard Of Us: We Were Called Oracles, Nymphs, Spirits, Fairies, Household Gods, Lemures, Larvas, Lamias, Sprites, Water-nymphs, Incubi, Shades, Spirits Of The Dead, Specters And Ghosts.

Even If A King Defeats His Enemy In Battle, That Still Doesn't Settle Anything. There Are Other, Less Numerous Armies Of Philosophers And Scientists, And Their Contests Determine The True Triumph Or Defeat Of Nations. One Scholar Is Matched With Another; One Creative Mind With Another; And One Judicious Temperament With His Counterpart. A Victory Won On That Field Counts For Three Won By Force Of Arms.

For An Apple Is In It Self A Little Universe; The Seed, Hotter Than The Other Parts Thereof, Is Its Sun, Which Diffuses About It Self That Natural Heat Which Preserves Its Globe: And In The Onion, The Germ Is The Little Sun Of That Little World, Which Vivifies And Nourishes The Vegetative Salt Of That Little Mass.

To Tell The Truth, The Chariot Was An Astonishing Sight To Behold, Because I Had Polished The Steel Of My Flying House So Carefully That It Reflected The Sunlight On All Sides. It Was So Bright And Dazzling That I Thought, Myself, That I Had Been Carried Away In A Chariot Of Fire.

In It He Proves That All Things Are True And States How The Truths Of All Contradictions May Be Reconciled Physically, Such As For Example That White Is Black And Black Is White; That One Can Be And Not Be At The Same Time; That There Can Be Hills Without Valleys; That Nothingness Is Something And That Everything, Which Is, Is Not. But Take Note That He Proves All These Unheard-of Paradoxes Without Any Fallacious Or Sophistical Reasoning.