Eureka: A Prose Poem - Edgar Allen Poe
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Eureka, a prose poem by Edgar Allan Poe with very profound respect. This work is dedicated to Alexander von Humboldt preface to the few who love me and whom I love to those who feel rather than to those who think to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the Onley realities, I offer this book of truths not in its character of truth teller but for the beauty that abounds in its truth, constituting it. True to these, I present the composition as an art product alone, Let us say as romance or if I be not urging too lofty a claim as a poem. What I hear pro pound is true. Therefore it cannot die, or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will rise again to the life everlasting. Nevertheless, it is as a poem on Lee that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead. Edgar Allan Poe Eureka. An essay on the material and spiritual universe. It is, with humility, really un assumed. It is with a sentiment, even of awe, that I penned the opening sentence of this work for of all conceivable subjects. I approached the reader with the most solemn, the most comprehensive, the most difficult, the most August. What terms shall I find sufficiently simple in their sublimity? Sufficiently sublime in their simplicity, for the mere enunciation of my theme. I designed to speak of the physical, metaphysical and mathematical off the material and spiritual universe of its essence, its origin, its creation, its present condition and its destiny. I shall be so rash, moreover, as to challenge the conclusions and thus, in effect, to question the sagacity of many of the greatest and most justly reverence of men. In the beginning, let me as distinctly as possible announce not the the're, um, which I hope to demonstrate for. Whatever the mathematicians may assert, there is in this world, at least no such thing as demonstration. But the ruling idea which throughout this volume I shall be continually endeavoring to suggest my general proposition, then is this. In the original unity of the first thing lies the secondary cause of all things, with the germ of their inevitable annihilation.