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The Irrational (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not what defies reason but what lies beyond it — that the earth has a moon, or that water is densest at four degrees.

The Irrational (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be pushed out of sight by ever more elaborate explanation, until the explanation itself passes our powers of comprehension.

The Irrational (n.) brought ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠about all the greatest transformations of mankind — not intellectual calculation, but ways contemporaries ignored or rejected as absurd.

The Irrational (n.) once ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠repressed must be lived out by individual and nation alike — even devoting their loftiest ideals and best wits to expressing its madness in perfect form.

The Irrational (n.) pushed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠into the unconscious works unceasing havoc like an invisible focus of disease: individuals and nations then must live it out, devoting their loftiest ideals to expressing its madness perfectly.