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Four hundred years ago, the bard saw it coming and saw where it would lead. This is Ulysses\u2019 speech from \u201cTroilus and Cressida\u201d on the order in the universe and what will happen if we embrace disorder instead :<\/p>\n

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre\t 88
\nObserve degree, priority, and place,
\nInsisture, course, proportion, season, form,
\nOffice, and custom, in all line of order:
\n. . . . . . . . . .
\n. . . How could communities,
\nDegrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities,
\nPeaceful commerce from dividable shores,\t 108
\nThe primogenitive and due of birth,
\nPrerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels,
\nBut by degree, stand in authentic place?
\nTake but degree away, untune that string,\t 112
\nAnd, hark! what discord follows. . .
\n. . . . . . . . .
\nForce should be right; or rather, right and wrong\u2014
\nBetween whose endless jar justice resides\u2014\t 120<\/p>\n

Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
\nThen every thing includes itself in power,
\nPower into will, will into appetite;
\nAnd appetite, a universal wolf,\t 124
\nSo doubly seconded with will and power,
\nMust make perforce a universal prey,
\nAnd last eat up himself. Troilus and Cressida, Act I. Scene III<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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