"Calling out to the astronaut, I need some of what you got, I need to feel hiiigh"
I'm in the library right now and the kid next to me is using the table our desktops share as a personal drum set. *sigh* So forgive me if I have typos.
We covered a bit of the emergence of socialism in the mid-18th century in Civ class today. AWESOME topic, if I may say so myself. I'll probably make some big 'my views on socialism' entry a bit later, but I'm not feeling the social anarchy vibe right now.
While drinking my delish coffee today I was thinking about the end of the Principia and the beauty of its last paragraph.
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"And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies; by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous; and electric bodies operate to greater distances, as well repelling as attracting the neighboring corpsucles; and light is emitted, reflected, refracted, inflected, and heats bodies; and all sensation is excited, and the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely, by the vibrations of this spirit, mutually propogated among the solid filaments of the nerves, from the outward organs of sense to the brain, and from the brain into the muscles. But these are things that cannot be explained in few words, nor are we furnished with that sufficiency of experiments which is required to an accurate determination and demonstration of the laws by which this electric and elastic spirit operates.
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And, in one fell swoop, Sir Issac Newton connects physics, philosophy, religion, humanity, and damn good expressive writing in a way that hasn't changed in almost 350 years.
We covered a bit of the emergence of socialism in the mid-18th century in Civ class today. AWESOME topic, if I may say so myself. I'll probably make some big 'my views on socialism' entry a bit later, but I'm not feeling the social anarchy vibe right now.
While drinking my delish coffee today I was thinking about the end of the Principia and the beauty of its last paragraph.
* * *
"And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies; by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous; and electric bodies operate to greater distances, as well repelling as attracting the neighboring corpsucles; and light is emitted, reflected, refracted, inflected, and heats bodies; and all sensation is excited, and the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely, by the vibrations of this spirit, mutually propogated among the solid filaments of the nerves, from the outward organs of sense to the brain, and from the brain into the muscles. But these are things that cannot be explained in few words, nor are we furnished with that sufficiency of experiments which is required to an accurate determination and demonstration of the laws by which this electric and elastic spirit operates.
* * *
And, in one fell swoop, Sir Issac Newton connects physics, philosophy, religion, humanity, and damn good expressive writing in a way that hasn't changed in almost 350 years.