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Updated: May 5, 2025
Most of them were in business, it was true, and several were converting the heathen of China or America to a nebulous protestantism; but a few, he found, were working constructively at jobs that were neither sinecures nor routines.
There seemed something appeasingly ordered and implacable in the mere revolutions of the engines. And as those engines settled down to their labors the intent-eyed men about him fell almost as automatically into the routines of toil as did the steel mechanism itself.
First, that Knowledge is of perceptions only, not of things in themselves; secondly, that these perceptions occur in fixed routines; thirdly ..." "But," interrupted Dennis, "what is a perception? I suppose it's a perception of something?" "No," he said, "I don't know that it is." "What then? Simply a state in me?" "Very likely." "Then does nothing exist except my states?"
With his spirit thus moulded the native falls into the most pernicious of all routines: routine not planned, but imposed and forced. The good and the beautiful attract him, seduce and captivate him, although, like the Japanese, he often exchanges the good for the evil, if it appears to him garnished and gilded.
The whole thing has simply been running on momentum for at least five centuries, and if we hadn't come smashing in with a situation none of the routines covered, it would have kept on running for another five, till everything wore out and stopped. I heard about those missile-stations, by the way. They're typical of everything here." "That's another thing," Erskyll interrupted.
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