On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:25 PM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:
> That quote from Buchanan, again totally out of context, presumes that > change is > wholistic, one mass, when in fact change is in countless different parts, > some > in harmony most not. "For every gain there is a loss." (Emerson). For > every > decline into a racket there is a new emerging great cause or idea. > > > - For whenever a thing changes and passes out of its own limits, this is the death of what it was before. And so whether the mind is sick, or changed by medicine, it gives signs of its mortality. These true facts strike down fallacious reasoning, and by a double-edged refutation prove the falsehood of an eternal soul. Lucretius
