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Stevenson and Erdman give the words "Circled in infinite orb" (emended to "Cubed in window square") for the line Keynes could not decipher:

"[words erased and illegible] immoveable, within its [arches all del.) "walls & ceilings" (K. II. 245). A further emendation from "globe" to "Pyramid" (X II. 136) describes the "bright masses" hurled into "the deeps of Non Entity" CK. II. 137).

The geometric precision of the mundane shell divides, not unites, the "Peoples and Nations of this Earth" (K. II. 43). Some see the visible machinery of the first universe as a vision of terror; others are drawn to measure what is created:

With trembling horror pale, aghast the Children

of Man

Stood on the infinite Earth & saw these visions in

the air,

In waters & in earth beneath; they cried to one

another, .

"What! are we terrors to one another? Come, 0

brethren, wherefore

125 "Was this wide Earth spread all abroad? not for wild

beasts to roam."

But many stood silent, & busied in their families.

And many said, "We see no Visions in the darksom air.

"Measure the course of that sulphur orb that lights

the [dismal del.l darksom day;

"Set stations on this breeding Earth & let us buy

& sell."

130          Others arose & schools erected, forming Instruments