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Hello and welcome back to practical stoicism. I'm your host, Tanner Campbell, and if you'd like to get rid of ads, you can do that for $6 a month over at stoicism.com.com. You don't have to switch the app you listen to this podcast in already. You can use the same app. It's really easy, very straightforward, stoicism.supercast.com.

Also, if you missed it at the tail end of my conversation with Eric earlier this week, I have launched

a practical Stoicism merch store, which I will be honest. I never thought I would do after being

encouraged by some of you to do so. There are Procopton hats, t-shirts, and hoodies, as well as

cynic and stoic mugs and gaming mouse pads. I'm actually particularly proud of the gaming mouse pads.

I think they're quite funny. I got a little help from the Discord community and coming up with

those mouse pads, especially from Marty. Marty, thank you. And I think that you'll enjoy those. I find

them to be pretty funny. And I won't tell you what they say, but there's a cynic one and the stoic one,

and I think you should go look at them. There are always links to the things I talk about in these

little intros like the store and the community in the show notes of every episode. So go to

store.com and see if anything there tickles your fancy.

You might want to buy a shirt or a hoodie or a very funny mouse pad. With that, let's jump into

meditation number 27 from book four, which reads as follows. Either it is a well-arranged universe

or a chaos huddled together, but still a universe.

But can a certain order subsist in thee and disorder in the all? And this too, when all things are so

separated and diffused and sympathetic? This one was a little bit too archaic in its language.

This is, of course, from George Long,

so it's from the late 1800s. So let's look at Gregory Hay's translation, which is an ordered world

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