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Without intent devouring prey, Against its herd’s transgressors growling, Does on unthinking levels stay. It does pursue its basic needs, Yet naught in conscience does it want; Upon fly-ridden carcass feeds; No artificial tool can vaunt. It did its motions, fangs, and claws Inherit from decrepit wilderness. It knows not Nature’s structured laws And cannot mend its primitive duress. It acts, by mere stale impulse driven, In circumstances by its program undescribed. But morsels of the truth it has been given, Naught by experience prescribed. It perishes, ignominiously rotting. It held no reason to prevent With anything but aimless trotting A grim, oblivious descent. But in man’s mind no barrier’s standing. He learns from life, perceives reality, By structured knowledge elements commanding, From facts discovering morality. Man strives to live with conscious reason. What beasts cannot assure he amplifies, His resource management most prudent, His profits soaring in their size. Tomorrow is for him decided-- Not blind subsistence like the rest, Not horns in null stalemate collided, But for intelligence a test. How great a plenty can he furnish, How much convenience design, How many crags to planes can burnish, What tasks to burdened beasts assign? ’Tis all his, by intent and right, His life (and naught beside it is his goal) Never monotonous and trite, But nourished by insightful soul. He laughs, and not from arbitrary revel, But from grand progress, joy defining. Never should he his life dishevel Thinking that value’s happiness confining. Pleasure’s inseparable from merit. Leisure from labor can’t be torn. Man can’t prosperity inherit; To stall is to have life forsworn. Not altruistic self-surrender, Not feeling-driven wanton whim, Only strict reason can yield splendor And stretch the cup of pleasures’ brim.
G.
Stolyarov II is a science fiction novelist, independent
filosofical essayist, poet, amateur mathematician,
composer, contributor to
Enter Stage Right,
Le Quebecois Libre, and the
Ludwig von Mises Institute,
Senior Writer for
The Liberal Institute, and
Editor-in-Chief of
The Rational Argumentator, a
magazine championing the principles of reason, rights,
and progress. His newest science fiction novel is
Eden against the Colossus.
His latest non-fiction treatise is
A Rational Cosmology. Mr.
Stolyarov can be contacted at
gennadystolyarovii@yahoo.com. This TRA feature has been edited in accordance with TRA’s Statement of Policy. Click here to return to TRA's Issue VI Index. Learn about Mr. Stolyarov's novel, Eden against the Colossus, here. Read Mr. Stolyarov's new comprehensive treatise, A Rational Cosmology, explicating such terms as the universe, matter, space, time, sound, light, life, consciousness, and volition, at http://www.geocities.com/rational_argumentator/rc.html.
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