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Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I
Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
Lag of a brother?
Edmund has l’esprit de quantitŽ so essential to tactile
measurement and to the impersonality of the empirical mind.
Edmund is presented as a force of nature, eccentric to mere
human experience and “the curiosity of nations.” He is a prime
agent in the fragmentation of human institutions. But the
great fragmenter is Lear himself, with his inspired idea of
setting up a constitutional monarchy by means of delegating
by authority. His plan for himself is that he become a specialist: