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Professor Newcomer

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Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard         For buying an engine so powerful         That it wrecked itself, and wrecked the grinder         He ran it with.         But here is a joke of cosmic size:         The urge of nature that made a man         Evolve from his brain a spiritual life -         Oh miracle of the world! -         The very same brain with which the ape and wolf         Get food and shelter and procreate themselves.         Nature has made man do this,         In a world where she gives him nothing to do         After all - (though the strength of his soul goes round         In a futile waste of power.         To gear itself to the mills of the gods) -         But get food and shelter and procreate himself!

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