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FAUST'S STUDY
~or days and days you then are taught,
T?at, in what hitherto had gone,
Llke eating, and like drinking, on,
?ne, Two, and Three, the guide must bo
Bn this whioh seemed till now so free.
ut, as the weaver's work is wrought,
Even so is formed the web of thought;
0Une movement leads !I. thousand threads,
IlSeen they move, as now above
The shuttle darts, now darts below;
One beat combines a thousand twines,
And not unlike would seem the flow
Of mind. when Nature thinks in us.
But now in steps Philosophus,
~'o prove it could not but be thus.
The first was so-the second so­
Then must the third and fourth be so­
.And if the premises be hollow,
~hat the conclusion will not follow.'
-'-lle language this of all the schools
~e Art of Weaving taught by rules
-'-uat men profound and boys believe!
~Do they teach anyone to weave?
~ere he, who seeks to learn, or gives
B es?riptions of, a. thing that lives,
'r egms with 'murdering, to dissect',
l
' he lifeless parts he may inspect--
he limbs are there beneath his knife,
~nd all-but that which gave them life!
c~ las! the spirit hath withdrawn,
i,kat which informed the mass is goncl'
ey scrutinize it, when it ceases
F? be itself, and count its pieces­
J.,lnger and feel them, and call this
) .lCperimen t--analysis.
1 S What we handle then the whole?
IS there no animating soul?
N n nature is there nothing meant?
o law, no language of intent?
Oh! could your chemist, in whose hand
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