62
KONX OM PAX
knaves;
show to them wise and honest men, and the socialistic ginger
is no longer hot in the individualistic mouth.”
Juju
grunted
assent.
He
had
gone
almost
to sleep, but
Kwaw,
absorbed in his subject, never noticed
the fact.
He went on with the
alacrity of a steam-roller,
and
the direct
and purposeful
vigour
of a
hypnotized
butterfly.
“Man
is perfected
by
his
identity
with
the
great Tao.
Subsidiary
to this he must have balanced
perfectly
the
Yang and the Yin.
Easier still is it to rule the sixfold star of Intellect
;
while
for the
base the control of the body
and
its emotions
is the
earliest step.
“ Equilibrium
is the great law, and perfect equilibrium
is crowned
by identity
with the great Tao.”
He emphasized this sublime assertion by adeliberate
blow upon the
protruding
abdomen of the worthy Juju.
“ Pray continue
your
honourable
discourse!”
exclaimed
the half
awakened Daimio.
Kwaw went on, and I think it only fair to say that he went on for a
long time, and that because you have been fool
enough
to read thus
far, you have no excuse for being fool enough to read farther.
“ Phenacetin
is a useful drug in fever, but woe to that patient
who
shall
imbibe it in collapse.
Because
calomel
is a dangerous
remedy
in appendicitis,
we do not condemn its use in simple indigestions.
“ As above so beneath!
said Hermes
the thrice greatest.
The laws
of the physical
world are precisely
paralleled
by those of the moral
and
intellectual
sphere.
To the
prostitute
I
prescribe
a course of
training by which she shall comprehend
the holiness of sex.
Chastity
forms
part of that training,
and
I should
hope to see her one day a
happy wife and mother.
To the prude equally I prescribe a course of
training by which she shall comprehend the holiness of sex.
Unchastity
forms part of that training,
and I should
hope
to see her one day a
happy wife and mother.
“To the bigot I commend a course of Thomas
Henry
Huxley;
to
the infidel
a practical
study of ceremonial
magic.
Then,
when
the