Today I learned that methodological individualism makes so much more sense than methodological collectivism. Thanks, ECON256! Or, I should say, thanks Adelstein… because ECON256 is just an abstraction that we use as shorthand for the collective actions of a certain group of individuals! After all, a class doesn’t actually have the ability to teach me things.
As you can see, making the break from collectivist thinking is difficult.
And now, a quote from George Lippard’s The Quaker City:
The arching eyebrows, the closed lids, with the long lashes resting on the cheek, the parted lips, and the round chin, with its smiling dimple, all these were beautiful, but oh how fair and beautiful the maiden’s dreams. Rosier than her cheeks, sweeter than her breath, lovelier than her kiss—lovely as her own stainless soul, on whose leaves was written but one motto of simple meaning—”Love in life, in death, and for ever.”
And in all her dreams she beheld but one form, heard the whisper of but one voice, shared the sympathies of but one heart! He was her dream, her life, her God—him had she trusted with her all, in earth or heaven, him did she love with the uncalculating abandonment of self, that makes the first passion of an innocent woman!