Where Rationality Escaped from Irrationality
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The Greeks were wiser than that mystic Blake.
They had no truck with his Infinity
Inside a grain of sand. They need not shake
His nonsense; foolish asininity
Was well beyond their grounded, human earth.
They thought things through and left behind the dirt:
They knew what thinking was the best, what worth
Just chucking out. A little logic spurt
Could cure them of stupidity, no need
To bow and scrape to mistiness of minds
Around the Ganges. Ancient Greece’s creed
Was “Know thyself” and shut the Indian blinds.
The Greek religion was a shameful thing
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