The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays (1905)

If life is not always poetical it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules overthe mental experience of man according to the path of the orbit of histhoughts. Di... » 

If life is not always poetical it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules overthe mental experience of man according to the path of the orbit of histhoughts. Distances are not gauged ellipses not measured velocities notascertained times not known. Nevertheless the recurrence is sure. What themind suffered last week or last year it does not suffer now but it willsuffer again next week or next year. «