Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whereupon I by the fire to read a good part of Professor Whitehead's little essay "Nature and Life", which is mighty good; and thence to Emerson A at 12 to his birthday lecture. He being seventy-five it did much surprise me with what enthusiasm and inspiration he did lecture. But then I know as poets say "philosophers' hearts never wrinkle", especially, methinks, so great...
...know I will say: Like Plato he doth seek the Real; but he doth not find it in ideas but in process and activity. Thence he doth ask: (and a vital question) What be the status of life in this activity? And doth answer that it be "content". Whereupon this doth imply the interrelationship of life and nature and that one cannot be known apart from the other. And this, methinks, is a mighty fine notion, and one in a large degree be accepted by science...
...Whereupon from this principle, and many others, he doth set down-as is the business of philosophers-a notion upon which a systematic metaphysical cosomology ought to be constructed. And this be the far-reaching notion "that the energetic activity considered in physics is the emotional intensity entertained in life." Which, bless my soul, is an exceeding fine idea for it doth relate the activities of life and nature into the creative reality; and doth make us and our experiences an integral part of the whole. But this meaningless to those who know not philosophy...
...Whereupon, after reading much of the romance of Dante and Beatrice I to bed but not long, for a Valentine did come...
...Whereupon, I back to the Tower to read again Burton's "Kasidah" and much pleased by the thought...