M. Hollydorf’s first day’s investigations were rewarded with the discovery of old species, familiar to his eye, under new and strange combinations, affording conclusive23 evidence of exotic transfusion24 in propagation 117at some remote period. In semi-meditation, with a disinclination for food and midday rest, he continued his preparatory investigations while his assistants refreshed themselves with their accustomed rations8 and siesta26. Availing themselves of his invitation and leisure, the pr?tor, Correliana, Mr. Welson, and Dow made their appearance. Apologizing for interrupting his studies, Correliana requested the privilege of subjecting a flower from her garden to the magnifying power of the tympano-microscope? Assuring him, with its presentation, that she felt certain, from its extreme beauty and purity of fragrance27, that it would attract a high order of animalculan existence capable of appreciating its rare combinations. After a close examination with his unaided eyes, he declared it to be of an unknown species and as peculiar28 in its rare beauty, novelty of its perfume, and delicate pungency29 of its impression, as the Heraclean representatives of woman kind were superior and distinct from their civilized genera in the purity of their habits and customs. With this combined pronunciamento of comparison as a vent30 to his enthusiastic admiration31, he placed the flower in the field receptacle of the tympano-microscope for focal magnifying reflection of its parasitic32 habituary residents, for inspection33 and classification in substance and sound. With an exclamation34 of surprise, compounded of fear and amazement35, he started back from the instrument exposing to view the petals36 and pistils peopled with a multitude of diminutive38 human beings, who were convulsed with sneezing spasms39 of laughter, which they tried in vain to suppress with expedients40 in common use by our kind. The tympanum in sound articulation41 reverberated42 their tiny cachinnations and sternutatory explosions with such comical effect, that the pr?tor and Correliana were compelled, notwithstanding all their efforts to avoid the impulsive44 sympathy of contagion45, to join issue with this mirthful introduction 118of our savans to a kindred animalculan representation of our race. While equally subject to the uncontrollable spasms of mirthful laughter and dumb amazement, the spectators to this scene of apparent conjurement were held speechless.
The leader of the diminutive apparitions46 at length leaped lightly, as if propelled by a sneeze, upon the stage within the reflecting compass of the tympano-microscope. Then, after a few ineffectual attempts to regain47 his composure, he finally succeeded in obtaining sufficient control to offer the following apologetic address, which gradually recalled us to our senses; but not in sufficient degree for a realization48 of their actual existence as human beings, free from the magic attaint of fears conjured49 from superstitious50 instinct. He thrice repeated to attract our attention from the stupor51 of amazement: “Men of science, and deliverers of the Heracleans, our protogean affinities52!” Our partial attention secured, he continued. “If through the disability of our Dosch, or chief advisor53, our selection as Manatitlan ambassadors to welcome you, in our people’s behalf as the preservers of our co-affinities in affection, should prove a source of discredit54 from our undignified appearance on presentment, it would prove a source of lasting55 sorrow. But we feel certain that you will extend to us the favor of believing that we are not inclined to untimely mirth, notwithstanding the example we have given to the contrary. With the concerted desire to impress you at a suitable moment with the reality of our existence as a race, Mistress Correliana probably forgot the keen sensitiveness of our schneiderian membranes56 to pungent57 odors, and with the intention of giving as much eclat58 as possible to our introduction, selected from her garden the most beautiful and fragrant59 flower of its parterres. The novelty of our emprise withheld60 our attention from the flower until it was placed in your hand for examination, then too late 119to effect an exchange, we braced61 ourselves to resist its effects. Hence our humiliating condition when exposed to your view and hearing! Thrown off our guard by the transformation62 effected in our size and sound of our voices, and above all by the consternation63 manifested in the expression of your faces, we could not resist the impulse of our naturally mirthful dispositions64. That the infection should reach and overpower the more staid humor of our cousins, you will not wonder, when you recall your own and our disordered extremes. If you will control your perturbed66 emotions for a moment’s reflection you will be able to realize the irresistible67 nature of our impressions under these combined effects. Withal, when our existence and presence in auramentation becomes familiar as a recognized reality, you will find in our joyous68 dispositions a ready explanation for these ante phases of our first personal introduction.”
Upon this hint, Correliana conquered sufficient composure to introduce the speaker as Manito, the Pr?tor of Manicul?, the chief city of Manatitla. Then with the accompaniment of a spasmodic inclination25 to sneeze, as they leaned over the serrated edges of the petals, the tribunes were introduced individually by name. This process was lengthened69 by occasional suppressed tendencies to mirthful outbreaks, which gave M. Hollydorf and his companions an opportunity for partial recovery from their dazed state of amazement. When sufficiently70 restored for intelligent comprehension, the flower was changed for one of less pungent odor, and Manito from the rostrum point of a petal37 continued his address.
“From our diminutive size we willingly subscribe71 to the designation your nomenclature bestows72 upon insect animalities which are but partially73 visible to your unaided eyes. Still we do not disdain74 our size, for with the Manatitlans it has received the compensating75 privilege of a perception that enabled them to 120distinguish the evident object of mankind’s intelligent endowment above the instincts of associate animality.
“Like individuals of your race, ours vary in size. Some among the Manatitlans have reached in stature76 a height approximating in a remote degree to your well formed dwarfs77 of a standard monstrosity in the diminutive extreme sufficient for the excitement of wondering surprise. Our own divisions are expressed in terms rating from the smallest in stature, which are called tits; these form the masses, but with a sensible diminution78 in numbers from an upward tendency to the second degree of elevation79 from the majority. The middle class are styled mediums. With every generation this grade has been increased in proportion with the decrease of the tits, and ranks in status with your “well to do” money grade of merchants and speculators. The giantesco enjoys the highest statutory standing43 in the ranks of size, representing your titled duke commanders, and subalterns of lordly and knightly80 degree. But these distinctions are only perceptible to the eye, and in no way arbitrary in the assumption of prerogative81 stature rights above those below. As our scholastic82 term of education commences with the infant at the age of two years: the first stage that directs and controls the infantile perceptions and cravings of instinct is styled pupillage, and is under the supervision83 of the censor84 and nurse, who hold the instinctive85 exaggerations of parental86 fondness in check from birth. This habilitative stage of matriculation is the most trying for direction, as upon it depends the matriculant’s after power of self-control. The second stage of nonage commences at seven, when the self-devising perceptions begin to expand into individuality, that require educated direction, and leading encouragement. At fourteen, or the pubertal stage, the first indications appear for the premonitory inauguration of status rank established for the distinctions of size. 121The initiatory87 discipline of the scholar entering upon his senior term, induces the tractor disposition65 of the censorial88 advisor, in association with his juniors; in place of your form system of “bullying” the nether89 “fag,” whose weakness makes submission90 a virtue91, when subject to the classical distinctions of arbitrary power. The seniors become assistant tutors to the censors92 and teachers from the age of fourteen until the close of their twenty-third year, when they graduate; and after a probationary93 term of three months’ “courtship,” with the connubial94 censors’ selection of affiances, are married. This cursory95 glance will serve for an introductory insight into our natural system of education designed for the direction of our immortal96 endowment in perceptive97 flight above the body’s ephemeral gratification of instinctive desire.
“Of other matters, pertaining98 to our actual realization of an enduring happiness, you will be advised by our advisors99; as our interview was designed solely100 for your recognition and realization of our existence as a race in diminuendo alliance with your own. Our associations with your race are of a privileged description, which from the concentrated acuteness of our sensitive perceptions, enables us to divine your thoughts by auramental espionage101. If you will give a moment’s investigation13 to the impressions of thought, when free from the turmoil102 of suspicious doubts, which now assail103 and render your efforts for reasonable perception void, you will find that they are all distinctly enunciated104 in the thalmus auditorium105, which is the focal centre for maturing sensorial observations. Our size, and practical knowledge of the sensitive departments of your ears, enables our giantescoes to gain the aural106 sinus without provoking titillation107, and its proximity108 to the vibrating portal, or vellum auditorium, permits our sensitive perceptions of sound to realize your thought articulations 122before they are matured for retentive109 comparison, or the vocalized utterances110 of speech communication. So that in reality, we hold the gigas (the name word we use for the designation of your race in contradistinction to our own) subject to our direction, when free from the ruling habits of instinctive indulgence, which defy control. As the previous knowledge of our advisers111 has preferred you to their confidence, I will state that our means of direction are through thought substitution, which the giantesco is able to modulate112 with ventriloquial variations of voice for the receptive nullification of those derived113 from their own sensoriums. Of course, the effects vary with the intensity114 of the subject’s command over his own sensorium, and the absorbing influence of educated impressions imparted from habits and customs. As an example, I will now state that M. Hollydorf, in his turmoil of doubts, feels that Mistress Correliana has in some way imposed upon his confidence; but my informer says that his impressions are in no wise capable of assuming the power of self control, so that upon our own responsibility we will exonerate115 Correliana from all deceptive116 intentions; as she was subject to our control in withholding117 from you a knowledge of our presence, as the mysterious source of her guiding premonitions, and means of obtaining information of human affairs in the world beyond the inclosing walls of their isolated119 city. Now, in turn, we ask you to withhold118 from your companions the result of your day’s explorations, that you may observe the influence we are able to exert for their mystification, and the development of the intangible resources of instinct, which subserve for the delusive120 beguilement121 of reason from the intelligent direction of creative indications. This much, will prove sufficient for your night’s cogitations, but to-morrow the Dosch and his advisors will instruct you in the weightier matters pertaining to our educating system devised for self control. As 123you are still hovering122 in the clouds of doubt, we will regale123 your senses, for composure, with a musical olio. M. Hollydorf, at the period of our first introduction, was considered an excellent judge of music, and at times amused himself with amateur compositions, one of which pleased me, and on my return to Manatitla I presented it to our musical censor, who adopted and incorporated it with our salutations. We will now render it, that you may pass censure124 or commendation upon the accuracy of our version; for of all the selfish kleptomanias, that of stealing musical compositions, and mutilating them in transposition for an author’s reputation founded upon a lie, is the most contemptible125 within the range of barren instinct. Fortunately, only the younger branches of the Mouthpat tribes of our species have ever been guilty of a witless invention base enough to seek gratification from so mean a subterfuge126.”
With this apologetic prelude127 Manito marshaled his choristers along the borders of the dependent curves of the petals facing his bewildered auditors128 and rendered the following stanzas129 with an effect that revived them from their superstitious fears:—
“From darkness dread130, the dawn appears!
Mother of day, whose dewy tears,
Distilled131 from the labors of the night,
Greet with joy, the sun birth of light.
“Hail, glorious mother of morn!
Beautiful type of woman’s form,
When hallowed from instinctive night,
She hails, at birth, a son of light.”
M. Hollydorf recalling the occasion and source of inspiration, glanced at Correliana with a furtive132 look of anguish133. For the prompting source of the stanzas, was a longing134 desire that woman’s beauty should be adorned135 with more lasting “graces” than those bestowed136 by the fashionable dressmaker, dancing master, and boarding-school mistress, in hopeful premonition 124of an immortality137 with joys exceeding the gossiping allurements138 of a heaven of sense. The look of sympathy he received in return banished139 from his thoughts doubts, and suspicions of supernatural agency. Manito, observing the confidence expressed in his glance, and the more ready belief of Mr. Welson and Dow, that the Manatitlans in reality represented a diminutive department of human mortality, said, that as his mission for the day had been fulfilled in degree beyond expectation, they would not prejudice their success by prolonging the interview, but would leave them with a new zest for the transmission of one of their best melodies. He then rearranged his choristers and rendered “Home, sweet home,” with an effect that caused them to join in thought sympathy with the affectionate harmony of Manatitlan expression. At the close the pr?tor and tribunes of Manicul? bid their first giga audience good-by, and disappeared from view. Correliana then signaled the stoop of her favorite falcon140 Merlin from his circling wafts141 above the latifundium; after a short perch142 of a few moments upon her wrist, he was despatched, as she announced, to Manicul?, bearing back the pr?tor, Manito, and tribunes.
Mr. Welson was the first to break silence after their departure, with a long drawn143,—“Whew,” as a prelude to the exclamation, “Ah, ha! mistress Correliana, we have the secret now to all your mysterious enactments144, which inclined those the least superstitiously145 prejudiced to credit you with an inheritance tinctured with the pretensions146 of your sibylline147 ancestry148. But our wondering amazement is scarcely less than it would have been under the superstitious impression that you really possessed the power invoked149 by the ancient sibyl. Still the manifestation150 of a visible source, however small, is far more agreeable to our perceptions.”
Correliana answered, with a pleading smile, “You 125will surely forgive, and pardon me for retaining a secret of such importance, in the face of all your kind and confiding151 acts, now that you have learned that I received it in trust from a source so well qualified152 with the essentials of prudent153 direction? The Dosch, however, will more fully state the many causes that rendered its retention154 desirable. But of this you can rest assured, the Manatitlans are bona fide representatives of animalculan humanity; and when I state that we are solely indebted to them for our redemption from the bondage155 of instinct, you will understand the nature of our trust in their direction.”
Beckoning156 the stoop of a falcon, it alighted upon her wrist. She then exposed, beneath what they had supposed to be an ornamental157 attachment158 of designation, a howdah. Then taking from her pocket pouch159 a reel of filmy thread,—attenuated to a degree that rendered it almost imperceptible to the eye, she wound the free end around Mr. Welson’s finger, then asked him to try its strength. With his utmost exertion160, tried with many devices for its separation, the thread remained unparted. She then explained that the materials, from which, in perfect combination, it was drawn, were mineralized with flexile and vis inertia161 substances in adaptation for a great variety of purposes, subserving for the protective furtherance of health, comfort, and personal purity. Also for protective defense162, “as it is impenetrable to the swiftest fledged missiles when wrought163 into textile fabrics164.” But its most esteemed165 peculiarities166 are repulsive167 resistance to uncleanly cohesion168, combined with a nonconducting neutrality in the transmission of cold and heat, causing the refuse excretions of the body to evaporate without obstructing169 the rejecting orifices of the ducts, when used in its adaptation for raiment. In part, we have been able to imitate this valuable acquisition for the protective preservation170 of our persons from decomposing171 agencies, which are constantly 126in a fermentable172 and putrefactive state of conceptive action for the production of renewed vitality173 varied174 in degenerative series. But of these matters the Manatitlans will advise you in due time. In your present state of perturbation it will but little avail to extend our conversation into details that require for a complete understanding consecutive175 exposition.
After Correliana and her father had taken their leave of the four favored witnesses of the new grade revelation in the status of humanity, they remained standing in the same position, absorbed with contending emotions of doubt and belief, until aroused by the approach of Dr. Baāhar and the padre. Then, with a forced recovery, M. Hollydorf announced his intention of discontinuing his explorations for the time being; which afforded his assistants a desired relief, for with their few hours’ occupation they had discovered in themselves an unwonted dislike for the professional details of their occupation. While on their way to deposit the tympano-microscope in the house designated by Correliana as the one intended for the reception of the Dosch, the four maintained their thoughtful silence until after they had bestowed upon the instrument of revelation a careful disposal. Then M. Hollydorf sententiously remarked, “Although still perplexed176, I am confident in the full integrity of Correliana’s assurance that these Manatitlans are bona fide embodiments of humanity, with intelligent capabilities177 superior to our own! But it is hard to reconcile them with any of the preconceived ideas of our race. They certainly advocate, with practical demonstration178, a more direct and reasonable way for the attainment179 of present and prospective180 happiness, than that of redemption from sin by saving grace?”
“By all that there is in us, capable of assuming the control of judgment181, we cannot avoid their own, Miss Correliana’s, and the confirmation182 of our own 127senses in attestation183 of the fact of their real presence,” added Mr. Welson.
“For my own part,” said Mr. Dow, “there is to me nothing more strange in their discovery, than in that of the Heracleans, now that we have recovered, in a measure, from the first startling effects. It has occurred to me frequently, of late, that there must have been some interior creative object in the gradations of instinct, and ultimate alliance of superhuman intelligence with the highest grade? It is certainly impossible for me to reason myself into the belief that we have been endowed with a perception of goodness, and the necessity of purity for its attainment, to have them dispensed184 with in life for the substitution of the instinctive greed of selfishness, with the accommodating proviso of repurification by an act of saving grace! Neither can we disguise the fact, that we now think and act quite unlike our former selves, with a sensible improvement in happiness, in freedom from the selfish accessories we formerly185 thought necessary for its assurance.”
At this point they were interrupted by the entrance of the pr?tor with his wife and daughter, who came to inquire if M. Hollydorf wished to suggest any change for the better accommodation of his instrument with regard to light? In the expression of his satisfaction, M. Hollydorf alluded186 not only to the wonderful preservation of the buildings, but furniture, which appeared, in style, to have been coeval187 in manufacture with the remnants seen in old Heraclea. In explanation the pr?tor said that it was much easier to preserve from decay than to restore ruins. But the means of preservation had been bestowed by Giganteo XVI., Dosch of the Manatitlans, as a legacy188 to the sons of Indegatus, associate pr?tors of Heraclea, who were the first of our race that became personally acquainted with animalculan humanity. “You will find all of the unoccupied houses of 128the city in like good condition with this, and equally free for your inspection and occupation.”
As the occasion was opportune189, M. Hollydorf consulted with those present how he might prepare a statement of the day’s developments sufficiently credible190 for the acceptable belief of the Home Society? The pr?tor advised him to defer191 his cause of perplexity to the Dosch, who would resolve it readily, from a personal knowledge of the characteristic peculiarities of the members of the R. H. B. Society. Then Mr. Dow preferred his petition for their united aid in the advancement192 of his historical compendium193 of the Heracleans. This all were pleased to accord, as it was through his indomitable perseverance194 that the discovery was accomplished195, before the City of the Falls had been reduced to the tenantless196 condition of its senior counterpart. As he was referred to me for special aid in compilation197, from his lack of knowledge in the constructive198 use of the Heraclean idiom,—which was to us personally a source of mutual199 regret,—it will be well to state in anticipation200 of a similarity in diction of our separate labors, that I have been in no way beholden to him for the style I have adopted in recording201 the historiographical account of the corps202 investigations. I trust that this egoistic explanation will prove sufficient in efficacy to redeem203 me from plagiaristic204 odium?
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pretensions
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