THIS WORLD'S PHILOSOPHY

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 21, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 16

THIS WORLD'S PHILOSOPHY.

Under the title of “The Concord Philosophers,” the Washington Hatchet publishes the following lively bit of poetry. There are men who will go into ecstasy over the clear light that shines, and the great fields of knowledge they can easily explore through the “Not,” “When,” and “What,” the “Ergo,” “Think-bees,” “Thusness,” and “Over-Soul,” who claim that they cannot possibly tell what the Lord means when he says, “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work.”

Across the moorlands of the Not We chase the gruesome When, And hunt the Itness of the What Through forests of the Then.

Into the inner consciousness We track the crafty Where; We spear the Ergo tough, and beard The Ego in his lair.

With lassos of the brain we catch The Isness of the Was, And in the copses of the Whence We hear the Think-bees buzz.

We climb the slippery Which-bark tree To watch the Thusness roll, And pause betimes in gnostic rhymes To woo the Over-Soul.