Necessity was construed in many ways since the ancient Greeks,
pre-Greeks was a deity.
Of course, to think of it as in relation
to the family of invention, virtue, and so on.
But it's also part of the family of justice.
And it's one of the family conflicts
that's worked out in this book between necessity and justice.
And I'll read a few poems from this book and then pause.
But since it is Shakespeare's birthday,
I thought I'd just quote a few lines of Shakespeare's that
uses the word necessity in terms with which I
feel a great affinity.
And it's from Richard II who after he has been deposed
says to his wife, learn, good soul.
To think our former state a happy dream.
From which awaked the truth of what we are shows us, but this.
I am sworn brother, sweet, to grim necessity.
And he and I will keep a league till death.
Face to face.
The sky too fell upon itself and hid behind the point
where everything takes on the sheen of disbelief.
Justice shivered in his mask.
The residue of innocence would speak if it had words.
It would be cry out once more for what name.
What is it seen there at the origin?