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Philosophy began in ancient Greece as poetry,

as inseparable with the medium of the musikas,

the poetic mode.

And for that reason, I'll begin with a poem today, a poem from one of my

favorite Jesuits, Father Gerard Manley Hopkins, you may guess. And I believe that this poem,

among many of his, is representative, not of a particular scotisposition, as he's often associated with, but let's say

more broadly speaking of an Aristotelian outlook. This poem is called, as King Fischer's Catch Fire,

dragonflies draw flame. That's the opening line. King Fischer's Catch Fire. As King Fischer's Catch Fire,

dragonflies draw flame.

It's tumbled over rim and roundy well, stones ring.

Like each tuck string tells, each hung bell's bow,

swung, finds tongue to fling out broad its name.

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same.

Deals out being indoors, each one dwells.

Sells, goes itself, myself, it speaks and spells,

crying out, what I do is me, for that I came.

I say more, the just man justices, keeps grace. That keeps all his going's graces, acts in God's

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