The Further Essays of blupeter, Second Series. There are many among us, average persons, who proceed in life with the belief that there exists a grand design and a grand designer. They cannot imagine that they could not proceed, otherwise. There is evidence, however, that what we observe of the universe has come about by the operation of general laws of nature which have been working away over an unimaginable length and depth of space and time.
Love is a child of folly.
Destroy'd by Knowledge, and at best. Beyond its own sweet will. The institution of marriage, like all things, has evolved. This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces. Though illusionary, religion is a way by which a person may cope with his and her own mortal destiny.