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Updated: June 14, 2025
And suddenly it came into my mind that this monstrous machinery of heads and limbs was no more me than my statues had been me, and that it was only an automaton that I had enslaved. MARTELLUS. Enslaved? What does that mean? THE SHE-ANCIENT. A thing that must do what you command it is a slave; and its commander is its master. These are words you will learn when your turn comes.
MARTELLUS. Friends: it is unfortunate that Pygmalion is constitutionally incapable of exhibiting anything without first giving a lecture about it to explain it; but I promise you that if you will be patient he will shew you the two most wonderful works of art in the world, and that they will contain some of my own very best workmanship.
I confess I thought at first I had created living creatures; but Martellus declares they are only automata. But then Martellus is a mystic: I am a man of science. He draws a line between an automaton and a living organism. I cannot draw that line to my own satisfaction. MARTELLUS. Your artificial men have no self-control. They only respond to stimuli from without.
Falsely and traitorously also did he release the Romans, the Italians, and himself too, of the oath whereby they and he were straitly bound to be true to the "emperor of Greece," and stirred up the emperor's subjects to forsake him: and calling Carolus Martellus out of France into Italy, made him emperor, such a thing as never was seen before.
But you yourself are making statues of ancients instead of beautiful nymphs and swains. And Ecrasia is right about the ancients being inartistic. They are damnably inartistic. Our greatest artist vindicates me. Thanks, Martellus. MARTELLUS. The body always ends by being a bore. Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
All who can, whistle like streetboys. PYGMALION. Sh-sh-sh! A dance tune. Not too fast. The flutists play a quiet dance. MARTELLUS. Prepare yourselves for something ghastly. Two figures, a man and woman of noble appearance, beautifully modelled and splendidly attired, emerge hand in hand from the temple. Seeing that all eyes are fixed on them, they halt on the steps, smiling with gratified vanity.
Desilio, desilis, desilii or desiliui: middle syllable short in trisyllables in the present; meaning, de aliquo salire siue descendere festinanter. 21. clauus, masc., claui: meaning, acutum ferrum, malleus, masc., mallei: meaning, martellus. tempus, neut.: meaning, pars capitis, for which some people say timpus.
The statue comes to life always. The statues of today are the men and women of the next incubation. I hold up the marble figure before the mother and say, 'This is the model you must copy. We produce what we see. Let no man dare to create in art a thing that he would not have exist in life. MARTELLUS. Yes: I have been through all that.
MARTELLUS. You see. He is a mere automaton. THE NEWLY BORN. I don't think I should like him to put his arm round my neck. Have they feelings? PYGMALION. Of course they have. I tell you they have all the reflexes. THE NEWLY BORN. But feelings are not reflexes. PYGMALION. They are sensations.
MARTELLUS. Keep off the primitive tribes, Pygmalion. They interest you; but they bore these young things. PYGMALION. I am only trying to make you understand. There was the Life Force raging all round me: there was I, trying to make organs that would capture it as a battery captures electricity, and tissues that would conduct it and operate it.
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