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Old Mortality (A Fallacy in Nature)![]() Estoy leyendo estos días no a Walter Scott sino a Browne, releyendo Hydriotaphia:Urne-Buriall, o quizá debería decir leyéndolo por primera vez... hay quien dice que es imposible releer, por lo de Heráclito, pero me refiero a que en este ejemplar tengo que cortar muchas hojas aún sin separar de la imprenta, y eso que la edición es de 1927. Hay algo melancólico, en leer este libro, un clásico sobre la mortalidad, los ritos funerarios y los sueños de posteridad, y ver que nadie se ha molestado en pasar la vista por sus letras cuidadosamente impresas y sus notas al margen, en ochenta años. Probablemente nadie volverá a hacerlo. It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seemes progressional, and otherwise made in vaine; Without this accomplishment the natural expectation and desire of such a state, were but a fallacy in nature: unsatisfied Considerators would quarrel the justice of their constitutions, and rest content that Adam had fallen lower; whereby by knowing no other Original, and deeper ignorance of themselves, they might have enjoyed the happiness of inferiour Creatures; who in tranquillity possess their Constitutions, as having not the apprehension to deplore their own natures. And being framed below the circumference of these hopes, or cognition of better being, the wisedom of God hath necessitated their Contentment: But the superiour ingredient and obscured part of our selves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us we are more then our present selves; and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments. (135)
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest"
The particulars of future beings must needs be dark unto ancient Theories, which Christian philosophy yet determines but in a Cloud of opinions. A Dialogue between two infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomly illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Platoes denne, and are but Embryon Philosophers. (133)
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