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Therefore, the Form is eternal and unchanging because it is first good and, as a result, it is eternal.
As vehement Aristotle seeks to apprehend reality by what is possible and attainable “even if there is some one good which is universally predicable of goods...clearly it could not be achieved or attained by man; but we are now seeking something attainable” (1097a, 33-34), he is determined, with splendor, to establish a practical, concrete, coherent system of thought for he cannot live with the tangles of neither uncertainty and mystery, myth and metaphor; those sagacious mysteries that drive us from rest to hunt for the thing itself, either in the quark or DNA, those mysteries that, in singing of the thing, still make us wander through the green-arid paths of life with no less wonder than Walt Whitman’s cosmic song of inquiry:
“And a child said, what is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is, any more than he.
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful Green stuff woven.
Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and remembrancer, designedly dropt,
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