• If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

    Edgar Allan Poe: If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1856). “The Select Works: With a Memoir of the Author. ¬The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”, p.269