(cut-up from The Fourth Book – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius)

(found in The Philosophy of Beards by T.S. Growing)

(found in The Bubbles of Sáki. – The Philosophy of Despair by David Starr Jordan)

(erasure from Chapter XV. Destiny – Political and Religious. – The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson)

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(erasure from Part Second. Essays. I. The Unseen World. – The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske)

(found in Synopsis of Contents – The White Spark by Orville Livingston Leach)

For those who may be following my daily postings from &there4, I’m pleased that today’s comes via International Times, with my thanks to them and Rupert. Read the poem here.

The image is a genteel foil to the tone of the poem…

(found in Chapter XIII Love is the Electric Law of Life: All that Live Must Come from Loving – The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder)

(appropriated from Chapter VIII. Of Definition. Book I. Of Names and Propositions. – A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill