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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: The first tumult of the affections was not wholly subdued; there were
longings of a creature
Moving about in worlds not realized,
which no art could satisfy. To most men reason and passion appear to be
antagonistic both in idea and fact. The union of the greatest
comprehension of knowledge and the burning intensity of love is a
contradiction in nature, which may have existed in a far-off primeval age
in the mind of some Hebrew prophet or other Eastern sage, but has now
become an imagination only. Yet this 'passion of the reason' is the theme
of the Symposium of Plato. And as there is no impossibility in supposing
that 'one king, or son of a king, may be a philosopher,' so also there is a
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