"Reason the card, passion the gale." Actually, Pope was wrong. Reason and Feeling are equally passions. The irredentist, determined commitment to l'esprit de geometrie is no less a folly than the fantasy intuitions of the centering spirit. It is easy to poke fun at all the variants of touchy feely subjectivity dancing about as objective knowledge and actual cures; but why should willful ignorance in search of a different certainty be considered any less stupid? What is apparent is that we are constructed to think in certain ways and to feel in certain ways. As much as our bones, these constructs are us. The point is to rattle them in harmony. So, one could add to Pope: passion the rudder, reason the steam.
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