A grande marcha de destruição mental vai continuar. Tudo será negado. Tudo tornar-se-á um credo. É razoável negar as pedras da rua; afirmá-las será um dogma religioso. É uma tese racional dizer que vivemos todos num sonho; será uma sanidade mística dizer que estamos acordados. Fogos serão acesos para testemunhar que dois mais dois são quatro. Espadas serão desembainhadas para provar que as folhas são verdes no Verão. Vamos ser obrigado a defender, não apenas as incríveis virtudes e sanidades da vida humana, mas algo ainda mais incrível, este universo enorme e impossível que temos diante de nós. Vamos lutar por prodígios visíveis como se fossem invisíveis. Vamos olhar para a relva impossível e para os céus com uma estranha coragem. Vamos ser aqueles que viram, e no entanto, acreditaram.
The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer. We shall be left defending, not only the incredible virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face. We shall fight for visible prodigies as if they were invisible. We shall look on the impossible grass and the skies with a strange courage. We shall be of those who have seen and yet have believed.
The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer. We shall be left defending, not only the incredible virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face. We shall fight for visible prodigies as if they were invisible. We shall look on the impossible grass and the skies with a strange courage. We shall be of those who have seen and yet have believed.
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