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    Posted on August 1st, 2006sherryPoets

    A Reasonable Constitution

    What though Reason forged your scheme?
    ‘Twas Reason dreamed the Utopia’s dream:
    ‘Tis dream to think that Reason can
    Govern the reasoning creature, man.

    — Herman Melville, from Selected Poems of Herman Melville (Anchor Books, 1964)

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