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Et quis, tandem, inquam, in muliere amorem conjugis sui religioni ac pietati anteponet quam continuò mandragoræ bibesse judicitur?" "But you, Callixines, observe that Penelope's love to her husband was always thus manifested. To this I answer, who but he that has habitually drunk Mandragora can prefer in a woman conjugal affection to piety?"
'Why, I wish we could have seen Mac-Morlan, said the Counsellor, 'who is a sensible fellow himself, and would besides have acted under my advice. But there is little harm. Our friend here must be made sui juris.
"And some courtroom on Earth will find more than interesting the testimony of your re-embodied brains." Dr. Ku Sui smiled in answer. "Oh, no doubt. But, my friend this transplantation you accept its possibility so casually! Won't it prove rather difficult for you, who have never even pretended to be a scientist?" "Not difficult. Impossible."
Art, therefore, is art whenever any object or any action, or any arrangement, besides being such as to serve a practical purpose or express an emotion or transfer a thought, is such also as to afford the sui generis satisfaction which we denote by the adjective: beautiful.
He was pulling on operating gloves. His slanted eyes showed keen and watchful through the eyeholes of the mask he already wore, as he surveyed the preparations. Ominous Ku Sui looked, among his white-clad assistants. The Eurasian seemed to give an order, and a white figure turned and glanced off into the surrounding darkness, raising one hand. A door showed in faint outline as it opened.
Our feeling of moral excellence, in like manner, is not the mere perception of different actions, or the discovery of the physical good that these may produce; it is an emotion sui generis, superadded to them. He adverts, in a strain of eloquent indignation, to the objection grounded on differences of men's moral judgment.
"Don't move, Friday," he warned him. "They'll only shoot; it can do no good. Eight to two are big odds when the two are unarmed." He turned and faced the Eurasian, holding him with his eyes. "Ku Sui," he said, clipping the words, "you have said that this would not permanently harm me, and, although I know you for the most deadly, vicious egomaniac in the solar system, I am believing you.
There was a great blaze of light-blue flame, and a puff in the air that made the window-panes rattle; but the heroic deed was done, and he heard a mental blast of trumpets, and the acclaiming voice of the Victor Sui. Willis should never know that he still because he never would again.
Our impressions with respect to them are too strong, too real, too much sui generis, to be capable of a comparison with anything but themselves. We hardly inquire whether those for whom we are thus interested, and to whom we are thus knit, are better or worse than others the question is a kind of profanation all we know is, they are more to us than any one else can be.
Seneca declares that folly is its own burden, omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui, a very true saying, with which may be compared the words of Jesus, the son of Sirach, The life of a fool is worse than death . And, as a rule, it will be found that a man is sociable just in the degree in which he is intellectually poor and generally vulgar.
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