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You should know about it before you leave. The Markovian Nucleus is somewhat of a hotbed of Ids." "Ids you mean the Idealists ?" Fothergill nodded. "Know anything about them?" "Not much, except that they are a sort of parasitic group, living usually in a servant relationship to other races on terran-type worlds.
When John Girdlestone was a raw-boned lad and Harston a chubby-faced urchin, the latter had come to look upon the other as his champion and guide. There are some minds which are parasitic in their nature. Alone they have little vitality, but they love to settle upon some stronger intellect, from which they may borrow their emotions and conclusions at second-hand.
Their spiritual life is parasitic: it is sheltered by convictions which belong, not to them, but to the society of which they form a part; it is nourished by processes in which they take no share. Let us pause to consider this immortal yearning for immortality even though the gnostics or intellectuals may be able to say that what follows is not philosophy but rhetoric.
Many tribes, never brought in contact with each other, seem to have originated the idea among themselves. Experiences between Colombo and Point de Galle. Dangers of Encountering Reptiles. Marvelous Ant Houses. Insect Architects. Curious Bird's Nests. Flamingoes at Rest. Variety of the Crane Family. Wild Pea-Fowls. Buddha's Prohibition. Mingling of Fruit and Timber Trees. Fatal Parasitic Vines.
In proportion as the parasitic plant of Roman forensic eloquence flourished, all positive ideas of right became broken up; and the distinction, so difficult of apprehension by the public, between opinion and evidence was in reality expelled from the Roman criminal practice.
And if you answer: Man has control over these; they are caused by man's ignorance and sin, and by his breaking of natural laws what will you make of those destructive powers over which he has no control; of the hurricane and the earthquake; of poisons, vegetable and mineral; of those parasitic Entozoa whose awful abundance, and awful destructiveness in man and beast, science is just revealing a new page of danger and loathsomeness?
Whereat Morsfield, certain that his parasitic thrasyleon apeing coxcomb would avoid extremities, mimicked him execrably. Now this was a second breach of the implied convention existing among the exquisitely fine-bred silken-slender on the summits of our mundane sphere, which demands of them all, that they respect one another's affectations.
Such a man resembles other men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface.
In me the lawyer's clerk is in abeyance, the lawyer of to-morrow has disappeared, only the poet is left that is to say, the essence of youth freed from the parasitic growths of everyday life. I feel it roused and stirring. How sweet life is, and what wonderful instruments we are, that Hope can make us thus vibrate by a touch of her little finger! May 1st.
Here it is packed away behind these rotting covers, just the real thing, no respectable stodge; no mere parasitic stuff; not more than a dozen poets; scores of outcasts and vagabonds and the real thing in vagabonds is pretty rare in print, I can tell you. We're all, every one of us, sodden with facts, drugged with the second-hand, and barnacled with respectability until until the touch comes.
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