PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE 



ciple being not only utility, but extreme economy, woman, 

 falling by this division into a male branch, is the least 

 female of females, and at this point one escapes from a 

 journalistic sex-squabble into the opposition of two prin- 

 ciples, utlfity and a sort of venturesomeness. 



In its subservience to the money fetish our age returns 

 to the darkness of medievalism. Two osmies may make 

 superfluous egg-less nests, but do not kill each other in 

 contesting which shall deposit the supererogatory honey 

 therein. It is perhaps no more foolish to go at a her- 

 mit's bidding to recover an old sepulchre than to make 

 new sepulchres at the bidding of finance. 



In his growing subservience to, and adoration of, and 

 entanglement in machines, in utility, man rounds the 

 circle almost into insect life, the absence of flesh; and 

 may have need even of horned gods to save him, or. at 

 least of a form of thought which permits them. 



Take it that usual thought is a sort of shaking or shift- 

 ing of a fluid in the viscous cells of the brain; one has 

 seen electricity stripping the particles of silver from a 

 plated knife in a chemical bath, with order and celerity, 

 and gathering them on the other pole of a magnet. Take 

 it as materially as you like. There is a sort of spirit- 

 level in the ear, giving us our sense of balance. And 

 dreams? Do they not happen precisely at the moments 

 when one has tipped the head; are they not, with their 

 incoherent mixing of known and familiar images, like the 

 pouring of a complicated honeycomb tilted from its 

 perpendicular? Does not this give precisely the needed 

 mixture of familiar forms in non-sequence, the jumble 

 of fragments each coherent within its own limit? 

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