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.
I Planted My Self In The Middle Of A Great Many Glasses Full Of Dew, Tied Fast About Me, Upon Which The Sun So Violently Darted His Rays, That The Heat, Which Attracted Them, As It Does The Thickest Clouds, Carried Me Up So High, That At Length I Found My Self Above The Middle Region Of The Air.
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.
'and For My Part, Gentlemen,' Said I, 'that I May Put In For A Share, And Guess With The Rest; Not To Amuse Myself With Those Curious Notions Wherewith You Tickle And Spur On Slow-paced Time; I Believe, That The Moon Is A World Like Ours, To Which This Of Ours Serves Likewise For A Moon.'
Luckless Is The Country In Which The Symbols Of Procreation Are The Objects Of Shame, While The Agents Of Destruction Are Honored! And Yet You Call That Member Your Pudendum, Or Shameful Part, As If There Were Anything More Glorious Than Creating Life, Or Anything More Atrocious Than Taking It Away.
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.
This Veridic Nose Arrives Everywhere A Quarter Of An Hour Before Its Master. Ten Shoemakers, Good Round Fat Ones Too, Go And Sit Down To Work Under It Out Of The Rain.
We Must Believe Then, That As From Hence We See Saturn And Jupiter; If We Were In Either Of The Two, We Should Discover A Great Many Worlds Which We Perceive Not; And That The Universe Extends So In Infinitum.
A Man Contains All That Is Needed To Make Up A Tree; Likewise, A Tree Contains All That Is Needed To Make Up A Man. Thus, Finally, All Things Meet In All Things, But We Need A Prometheus To Distill It.
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.
After A While The Press Of Business In The Province Put An End To Our Philosophizing, And I Returned With Increased Determination To My Plans To Fly To The Moon.
