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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This handwritten fragment links thought, physicality, morality, and judgment into a small contrast between being taken off and brought back.
The recovered middle phrase makes the fragment less partial: physical and moral judgment now sit between thought and the opposing movements of removal and return.
A tight handwritten pensee that sets thought between body and conscience. It names two faculties as a single verdict - 'Thought the / physical & / Morality / Are A judgement' - then splits them into opposing pulls: 'one takes you off / the other brings / you back'. The compact figure leaves which is which unspecified, so the physical and the moral hold the self in tension, one drawing it away and the other recalling it. The recovered middle phrase 'physical & / Morality' is what makes the small fragment legible as an argument rather than a stray note. Source capitalization is preserved.