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His philosophical and physiological pedantry for Schiller endows him lavishly with the special lore of the medical man obfuscates his vision for the ordinary facts of human nature. He has upon the whole a more intelligible motive for his rascality than Iago, but he is much less interesting, much less picturesque, for simple lack of mother-wit.
It obscures personal intention, neutralizes discrimination, and obfuscates individual purpose. It immobilizes personality, yet at the same time it enormously sharpens the intention of the group and welds that group, as nothing else in a crisis can weld it, to purposeful action. It renders the mass mobile though it immobilizes personality.
"Ah no!" said Amyas, burying his head in the tankard, and then mimicking Frank, "avoid strong ale o' mornings. It heats the blood, thickens the animal spirits, and obfuscates the cerebrum with frenetical and lymphatic idols, which cloud the quintessential light of the pure reason. Eh? young Plato, young Daniel, come hither to judgment!
The breeze interrupts and obfuscates their words, but now and then half a sentence comes clearly. "Have you seen any American papers lately?" "Nothing but the Paris Herald if you call that a paper." "How are the Giants making out?" "... badly as usual ... rotten ... slump ... shake up...." "... John McGraw ... Connie Mack ... glass arm...." "... homesick ... give five dollars for...."
You dine at high table, and fare sumptuously every day; I take a commons of cold beef for lunch, and have tea off an egg and roll in my own rooms at seven. You drink St. Emilion or still hock; I drink water from the well or the cup that cheers but not obfuscates. The difference goes to pay for the crockery.
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