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Not that I ever saw him rough or uncourteous with the most exasperating fool that ever rubbed a man's nervous system the wrong way; but there was a quiet, lurking smile which, supported by very few words, used to seem to have the singular property of making the utterers of platitudes and the mistakers of non-sequiturs for sequiturs, uncomfortably aware of the nature of their words within a very few minutes after they had uttered them.
He knew the law of average; the sea level; he had the idea of proportion; and so he ridiculed the mental monstrosities and deformities the non sequiturs of his day. Aristotle said women had more teeth than men. This was repeated again and again by the Catholic scientists of the eighteenth century. Voltaire counted the teeth. The rest were satisfied with "they say."
His head was turned, and so he chewed His pigtail till he died. This is inimitable, like all the best of Hood's puns. To the ear it is perfect, but so soon as you attempt to realize it to yourself, the mind is involved in an inextricable confusion of comical non sequiturs. And yet observe the gravity with which the forms of reason are kept up in the "and so."
There are often humorous passages, for the Altrurians are inextinguishably amused by our illogicality, and what they call the perpetual non sequiturs of our lives and laws. In the discussions they frequently burlesque these, but as they present them they seem really beyond the wildest burlesque.
"Your argument is a whole succession of non sequiturs," said Jerry, stimulated by the cider to unusual brilliance. "That's a long putt," chuckled Benson, the dealer in rare books and first editions. "What I mean is this," said Jerry. "We aren't literary critics. It's none of our business to say what's good and what isn't.
"Did you ever study logic, Sir George Templemore?" she asked, archly. "A little, though not enough I fear to influence my mode of reasoning, or even to leave me familiar with the terms." "Oh! I am not about to assail you with sequiturs and non sequiturs dialectics and all the mysteries of Denk-Lehre, but simply to remind you there is such a thing as the bottom of a subject.
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