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He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly.
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As we divided natural philosophy in general into the inquiry of causes , and productions of effects: so that part which concerneth the inquiry of causes we do subdivide according to the received and sound division of causes. The one part, which is physic , inquireth and handleth the material and efficient causes; and the other, which is metaphysic , handleth the formal and final causes.

Francis Bacon

— Francis Bacon, The Proficience and Advancement of Learning (1605)

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The average man of the present age … does not want to be a sentimentalist in his endeavors; he wants some measure for purposeful activity; he wants to feel that through the world some increasing purpose runs. … But since his metaphysic calls only for magnitude and number, since it is becoming without a goal, it is not a source of distinctions in value. It is a system of quantitative comparison. Its effect therefore has been to collapse the traditional hierarchy and to produce economic man, whose destiny is mere activity.

richard weaver

— p. 51 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))

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He knew what 's what, and that 's as high As metaphysic wit can fly.


— Canto I, line 149.

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