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... lustre of an afternoon in March and as I was returning somewhat cold and tired, saw at a distance the pink hat and heavy black curls of Keshav Ganesh and with him Broome Wilson and Prince Paradox. As I trotted up Prince Paradox hailed me. "Come round and have tea with me" he said "we are speculating at large on the primitive roots and origin of the universe, and I know your love for light subjects." "I... scarecrow;" put in Prince Paradox "for it seems to me neither beautiful as an idea nor sound as a theory but merely the last resource of bad psychologists." "I see the lovers of the past are as iconoclastic from regret as the lovers of the future from aspiration. We are then agreed that our first step will be to reject or accept heredity?" We all assented. "And now, Prince Paradox" he said "will... of tea-leaves and the chased bowls of Hephaestus in a common set of China." "If not the drink of Gods" I replied "it is the nectar of poets and women." "And that is a more splendid title" put in Prince Paradox. "You are right" said Keshav "poets and women are the efflorescence of being and the crowning rapture of creation, and if poets are roses in their delicate texture and have the crimson luxury and ...

... We are then to continue the inquiry in the Gardens on Tuesday afternoon? I think that was what you suggested. Wilson —Yes, on Tuesday at half-past two. Keshav —Would you mind my bringing Prince Paradox with me? He is anxious to hear how we are dealing with our idea and as he will be perfectly willing to go the lengths we have so far gone, we need not fear that he will be a drag on us. Wilson... am indignant with Nature for wasting on you a genius you so little appreciate. Treneth —Ah but you are really quite wrong, Wilson. Genius is a capacity for being indolent. Wilson —Enter Prince Paradox! But seriously, Keshav, I think the argument will live beyond this afternoon and I give warning that I shall drag you all over the field of ethics before we have done with it. Keshav —It will... elucidated or our statement falls to the ground. Treneth —I dissent: a definite definition is a contradiction in terms. I am for definite indefinitions. Keshav —I am not in extremities yet, Prince Paradox. Wilson —Well now, is not your phrasing "the inborn qualities and powers native to our humanity" very vague and indefinite? Keshav —Indefinite, I admit, and I cannot think that an objection ...