Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1872

Marginal pencil notation on page 63 of Paul R. Heyl, The Philosophy of a Scientific Man (New-York: Vanguard Press, 1933).

May 5, 1955

 

Original is missing.

/Heyl quoting Tennyson:  And Tennyson complains:

“That Nature lends such evil dreams. So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life.

“‘So careful of the type?’ But no.

From scarped cliff and quarried stone

She cries, ^‘A thousand types are gone:

I care for nothing, all shall go.’”

(Emphasis by S.H.)/

 

   

    Yes, all must go; but those types with longest periods, least frequency of interaction and dis-integration (most reality) are the last to go — so the trend is towards the infinite, the immortal — higher order and organization within herself. — perpetual transcendence.