Konx Om Pax

THIEN TAO; OR, THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN 61 (to) Expect leprous dragon with beri beri at your high mightiness’s magnificent heavenly palace to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon at three sharp. Thus met Kwaw, the poet-philosopher of China; and Juju, the godfather of his country. Sublime moment in eternity! To the names of Joshua and Hezekiah add that of Kwaw! For though he was a quarter of an hour late for the appointment, the hands went back on the dial of Juju’s chronometer, so that no shadow of distrust or annoyance clouded the rapture of that supreme event. III. E E (“THE Mamrasrmc or SiMPLicrrv.”) “WHAT,” said Juju, “0 great Tao, do you recommend as a remedy for the ills of my unhappy country? " The sage replied as follows: “ O mighty and magniloquent Daimio, your aristocracy is not an aristocracy because it is not an aristocracy. In vain you seek to alter this circumstance by paying the noxious vermin of the Dai Li Pai Pur to write fatuous falsehoods main taining that your aristocracy is an aristocracy because it is an aristocracy. “As Heracleitus overcame the antinomy of Xenophanes and Par menides, Melissus and the Eleatic Zeno, the Ens and the Non-Ens by his Becoming, so let me say to you; the aristocracy will be an aristo cracy by becoming an aristocracy. “ Ki Ra Di and his dirty-faced friends wish to level down the good practice to the bad theory; you should oppose them by levelling up the bad theory to the good practice. “Your enviers boast that you are no better than they; prove to them that they areas good as you. They speak of a nobility of fools and