Donne was a poor metaphysician; that is, he never closely questioned himself as to the absolute meaning of his words.

[What]

did he mean by the 'soul?' what by the ' body?'

[13]

Ib.

D.

And I know that there are authors of a middle nature, above the philosophers, and below the Scriptures, the Apocryphal books.

A whimsical instance of the disposition in the mind for every pair of opposites to find an intermediate, — a

mesothesis

for every