This title, dating from 2013 and revised 2021, is divisible into 24 sections all but one of which – the last – is of a largely aphoristic character suitable to the continuation of the author''s philosophy into new realms of metaphysical speculation and, indeed, logic, with one or two modifications of earlier theories supplementing what is largely original new material, including, for the sake of variety, some poetic fancies and not a little autobiography of both a personal and circumstantial nature. The exception alluded to above has less to do with this, however, than with a short story that rounds off the project, and does so with reference to the title chosen for the work as a whole – one particularly relevant to what is a story based in fact that happened several decades ago while John O''Loughlin was still a boy.
