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In Reply to: El Dorado posted by Alissa Henry on February 09, 1999 at 16:44:30:

What did you think about Volatire's view on Positivism. Wasn't that the point behind Candide? I thought it was a well wrtitten retort to this falliable metaphyiscal theory. Did you agree with him on this argument?

PLUS: this is kinda off the subject, but here is a poem on El Dorado, By Edgar Allen Poe. I dont know if he is speaking of the same place, but it is an interesting poem.

ELDORADO

Gaily bedight,
A gallent knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
'Shadow,' said he,
'Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?

'Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, bodly ride,'
The shade replied-
'If you seek for Eldorado!"

E.A. Poe

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