We now will pass to our fourth important epoch19, 161noted for the personal introduction of the Dosch Giganteo to Indegatus, Pr?tor of the present City of the Falls. In the process of rehearsal20 we shall allude21 to the third or falcon22 era.
Indegatus, Pr?tor of New Heraclea or more properly Heraclea of the Falls, was a man of indefatigable23 energy, and at the period of Giganteo’s introduction had just rescued the city from great peril24. The peril from the besiegers was in fact less dangerous than the factious25 dissensions of the populace within the city walls. Aware that idleness was the mother of envy and turmoil26, he had caused the latifundium to be divided into garden plots apportioned27 to the size of each family, for the cultivation28 of edible29 roots and cereals. While engaged with his two sons, Unipho and Gnipho, in the cultivation of their land, a bee alighted on the father’s shoulder, attracting his attention from the singularity of its appearance and fearless confidence. Apparently30 satisfied with the attention it had received it flew to a neighboring flower occupied by a companion. Shortly after he felt a sharp sting on the back of his hand; a quick glance discovered a speck31 variegated32 with dark and shining particles, which he was about to brush away, supposing it to be an insect; when something peculiar33 in its movements attracted a more minute inspection34, this resulted in the recognition of a little body possessing the dressed outline of the human form. Startled with superstitious35 fear from an apparition36 so manifestly supernal37, he called his sons that their stronger eyes might confirm or dispel38 the impression of his more attenuated39 sight. After an inspection of a few seconds they burst into a merry peal40 of laughter, exclaiming in a breath, “It’s a little man in Heraclean armor and sagum, flourishing his sword and spear as if he wished us to understand his signs!”
“My sons,” urged the father with anxious fears, “give more reverend heed41! He appears in a guise42 that 162betokens admonition from the regions of the nether43 world. Give earnest attention to his direction that the import of his visit may be revealed.”
Gnipho. “The little stranger points to one of my ears as if he wished to be admitted to a hearing?”
Indegatus. “My son, must I admonish44 you a second time to be more reverend in speech when addressing a being bearing tidings, you know not from whom, or from whence?”
Gnipho. “You have advised us, father, to follow the example of our superiors, and this stranger phantom46 appears to be in no serious mood, for he laughs at your fears. But I will admit him to an audience, that he may declare the object of his visit!”
Indegatus. “Presume not to take advantage of his levity47, for as you are well instructed, and know that when I advised, it was for your dealings with mortality?”
Gnipho. “Now he laughs outright48, and my ear resounds49 with his mirth, as if filled with the infantile chirping50 of a joyous51 cricket. But now he speaks!”
Indegatus. “Listen?”
Gnipho. “Yes father. He asks if I can hear him distinctly.”
Indegatus. “Then in virtue52 of my office as pr?tor and augur53, I will address him. Speak Nuntius: What tidings bear you from the spirit world? and from whose realm do you come in this disguise?”
Gnipho. “Again I hear his small voice in the chuckling54 check of merriment, as if he would fain speak in reply.”
Indegatus. “Then listen, my child, to the message he bears? It surely cannot presage55 ill if he is in merry mood!”
Gnipho. (Listening.) “He says he is not a spirit, but of mortal birth, like ourselves. But I will repeat his own words. ‘Say to your father, that I have been long acquainted with his goodness, and desire to relieve 163his anxiety for the self-imposed misery56 of his people. Also to render him other efficient aid in a small way!’”
Indegatus. “Ask him, with grateful thanks, his name, and from whence he came?”
Gnipho. (Laughing.) “He says his name is Giganteo, the Dosch or patriarch of the Manatitlans, a race of animalculans whose country lies six hundred stadia to the southeast of the deserted57 city of Heraclea.”
Indegatus. “Ask him how he proposes to help us?”
Gnipho. “He says by adding to your knowledge, in a privileged way that enables the small to help the great! He expresses a wish for us to retire with him to the parapet steps of the northern wall, where we shall be comparatively free from the shrill58 vibrations59 of the cicada’s winged notes.”
Indegatus. “We will move as he directs.”
Gnipho. “Now that we have complied with his request, he charges me to listen, and treasure all that I hear, that I may repeat it to you.”
Indegatus. “We will keep silence that your attention may not be distracted.”
After an hour’s close attention, Gnipho rehearsed to his father and brother, The Admonitory Request of Giganteo, Dosch of Manatitla. “Your ancestors of old Heraclea trained falcons60 for hunting, and through their borrowed use the Manatitlans obtained a knowledge of giga and animalculan nations beyond the ocean. We wished to recompense the service by imparting the source of our happiness to the people of Heraclea in return. But tyrannous ingratitude61 had so blunted affectionate sympathy, that your immediate62 ancestors alone listened to our warnings. But even they would have shared the common fate, if we had not found among the slaves those capable of judging between the good and evil. The majority of the enslaved were as relentless63, as the doomed64 were 164blind to their impending65 fate. They had determined66 that none of their hated oppressors of either city should be spared; but the Manatitlans through the same means that I propose to offer for your aid, foiled the deadly intention of the slaves. While the old Heracleans were reveling in the height of their prosperity, falconry, as with all the pontine races coeval67 with their transatlantic progenitors68, was their favorite pastime. Aeriolus, a worthy69 successor of Buzzee, visited the mews of old Heraclea, and with equally well devised skill in preparation, conceived the idea of utilizing70 the swift flight of the falcons and powers of abstinent71 endurance for crossing the ocean, the shores of which he had visited with the limited powers of the bee volant. Adventuring, with associate volantaphs, trials for their control in hunting, he soon perfected guiding attachments74 as efficient for directing their movements in flight as those devised for the bee. Selecting the swiftest and strongest he gradually accustomed them to long sustained flights over the ocean, insuring their welcome back to the mews by increased docility—under direction—to the will and lures76 of the falconer, when in the field. The anticipated difficulties from opposing wind currents, and means of obtaining food sustenance78, and disposing of it while in flight, had been successfully overcome by prolonged observations verified with tests. Food was obtained by directing the falcons’ attention to flying fish as objects of prey80, which, with parachute aid, they were able, after a little practice under the stimulus81 of hunger, to devour82 in mid83 air.
“In memorial of his success Aeriolus gives in testimony84 the transcribed85 after observation. ‘The transition from meat to fish, for a “fasting” flight of instinct, was adopted with far greater avidity than in human acts of ritualistic conformity86 to mythical87 injunctions, which we have seen practiced by the sectarian devotees to creeds88, as negative compensations for over indulgence of the carnal affections.’
165“When the arrangements of Aeriolus were fully79 perfected, he and thirty associates, with their wives, bade a hopeful farewell to the people of Manatitla, and started from the lochia (plaza) of Manicul? upon their adventurous89 air voyage of discovery, with a leading falcon and three followers90. Studying to aid the falcons by every possible means they, to their joyful91 surprise, discovered land on the morning of the fourth day from the start, and, at an early hour thereafter, alighted upon the lofty peak of an island mountain, since known as the Corcovado, a mountain summit of Corvo, one of the Azorean Isles92. After regaling the falcons in relief from their lenten diet, they, of their own accord, continued their flight to the mainland. Our joy was much depressed93, while passing over the beautiful land scenes, by the fierce cries of giga hosts engaged in battle encounter. In our course eastward94, to a country of colored races resembling the aboriginals95 of our own, not a day passed without our forced observation of a battle scene, with fields and smoking ruins that bespoke96 the devastation97 of warful rage.
“Sick and despairing from the constant recurrence98 of murderous acts of despoliation99, we at last reached, in returning, a cluster of islands in the western ocean to the northward100 of our point of arrival. On the largest island we found a hardy101 species of falcon, and, with the lure77 of our own, obtained four. After a few days’ training of our transport addition we returned to the island where we first landed. Anxious to return to our people, and the cheering welcome of loving affection, we only tarried upon the island a sufficient time to accustom75 our newly acquired birds to devour their food while sustained by the parachute and their wings in mid-rest. Starting, homeward bound, on the morning of the sixtieth sun from the date of our departure from Manicul?, we reached it again on the third day with the first notes of the 166evening anthem102 of thanksgiving, in which we gratefully joined in our descent to perch103.
“Some days were occupied in the public rehearsal of the events and discoveries transpiring104 in the progress of our voyage; the resulting issue proving a source of congratulation, nathless, our disappointment from the unfavorable prospect105 afforded for an affectionate reception by the animalculan residents of the many countries over which we passed, from the effect of giga example. After many repetitions of the voyage, it was decided106 that colonization107 in the chief cities of Europe and Asia offered the only means for the effectual regeneration of the animalculan races for a happy appreciation108 of our exampled resources of loving affection. When the proposition for colonistic volunteers was proclaimed it received such a general sympathetic prompting of affectionate obligation, that every Manatitlan held himself and family in readiness for the service. As it was necessary, for self-defense, to have a majority of giantescoes and mediums, to overawe treacherous110 designs, the required number for colonizing111 Rome, Constantinople, and Jerusalem, were obtained by lot. When, on the eve of departure, the Dosch advised them to live apart from the natives of the cities, and in self dependence112 upon their own exertions113 for support; but to receive all healthy children of the required age, placed at their disposal for the Manatitlan term of education. The emigrants114 numbered among their volunteers representatives of all the mechanical branches of artisan labor115, and especially those well instructed in the departments of indestructible house building and defensible vestments. So that little fear was entertained for their safety, as they could with ease repel116 the largest armies of tits that could be mustered117. But their chief reliance was upon a sturdy adherence118 to their native habits and customs, yet ever open for the reciprocation119 of affectionate goodness. They were also admonished120 167to make all possible application for the speedy acquisition of lingual121 idioms spoken in the different countries of their sojourn122 for future availment. Also, whenever favorable opportunity offered for the cultivation of giga goodness, to use their privilege of auramentation and thought substitution for encouragement and fruition. These general directions were improvised123 more for encouragement than from actual knowledge of the process best adapted for the controversion of habits and customs opposed to affectionate association and self-government.
“The first appearance of the Manatitlans in the cities of their destination attracted universal awe109 and curiosity on the part of the resident animalculan tits; for but few of the natives reached in stature124 the medium size. Their sudden and mysterious advent72, gigantic size, quiet demeanor125, and the great affection that they manifested towards each other, and in all the relations of life, proved a source of emulous wonder and admiration126 with the good, and a rankling127, envious128 source of disdain129 to the evil minded.
“Selecting their sites for residence from the advantages of inaccessibility130 to giga approach, arable131 soil, and capabilities132 for irrigation, their habitations were quickly constructed, with a cleanly elegance133 of adornment134 that added a new element of wonder to the lazy imaginations of instinct, in the superstitious belief that they were visitors under the patronage135 of divine agency. With these introductory advantages, which the colonists136 disclaimed137 to be other than those within the reach of all grades of mortality, which their appearance and vocation138 were intended to impart, the schools were organized, and flooded to overflowing139 with applications for admission. The monthly visitations of the children’s parents confirmed the belief that mission was under the special direction of the Godhead.
“The unselfish warmth of their children’s affection 168opened to their view a source of realized happiness that truly bespoke the impressions of immortality, from the continued joy imparted in anticipation140 of renewal141. The reputation of our advent, from the representative example of our neophytes, soon extended our influence to remote animalculan dependencies, so that the extension of our colonistic schools well nigh drained Manatitla of its effective resources of vitality142. In the course of a few centuries, dating from the Manatitlan colonistic advent in the countries of the eastern continent, the system of education introduced had been generally adopted, under our supervision143, by the animalculan races; notwithstanding the instinctive opposition144 of the chivalric145 portion, who followed the ancestral prestige derived146 from the preferred imitation of giga military school organizations, designed for the classical attraction of the senses with tinsel display, and ‘glorious’ din45 of martial147 music.
“Meanwhile your Heraclean ancestors had completed their third wall of circumvallation, and had extended their predatory excursions to the nether ocean beyond the dominions148 of the Yunka Machicas (Alta Peruvians) into those under the rule of Mauna Chusoes (children of the sun), whose women were esteemed149 very beautiful, being compared by a Heraclean chronicler of the period, ‘to all that was lovely in person, with a complexion150 that blended upon a surface of white, the reflected rays of burnished151 copper152 and gold.’ This comparison conveys the rich expression of metallic153 voluptuousness154 so much coveted155 by your Roman ancestry156. These ravishing toys of passion heralded157 the end. Your immediate ancestors had obtained an asylum158 in your present City of the Falls. ‘The end came and with it our hopes of communication with our colonies beyond the ocean.’
“Although aware of the approaching catastrophe159, we had supposed the falcons would be spared, but 169the Indians included everything living in the sum of their hatred160 that had contributed in any way to the oppressive pleasures of their taskmasters, unfortunately including all but eight of the falcons in the massacre161, sacrificing with them some of our best volantaphs. The eight were employed in transporting our Mouthpat neighbors to Rome, Gaul, and Iberian Asturias; but it was hard to keep in advance of their reproductive tendencies with so small a fleet.
“There was, however, a slight improvement in getting rid of the old stock, but the Dosch little thought of the possible injurious effect the Mouthpats were likely to exert in retarding162 the progressive prosperity of our colonists. But when, in the course of a few years they were deprived of their last falcon, the Manatitlans were led by the troublesome dispositions163 of their neighbors to reflect upon the evil ingraft they had imposed upon the labors164 of their people abroad. This source of anxiety has been so greatly magnified in the course of centuries which have passed since the loss of our last falcon, that, in our distress165, we now appeal to your suffering sympathies for aid in reclaiming166 those of the descendants of our carrier breed who have, from ancestral habits of association with your race, made their eryemews within the circuit of your cinctus walls. In like return, when your sons and daughters have redeemed167 for us the means of more safe and long sustained flight, we shall be better able to render you service against your enemies.”
Indegatus. “I have listened to my son’s transmission of your request, and we will thankfully comply with your desire!”
Giganteo. “That you may be enabled to effect the good I contemplate168, it will be necessary for you to restrict your confidence to those of your family who have arrived at the understanding age of discretion169. For with your people’s knowledge of our existence and 170communication with you, our efforts would be rendered void.”
Indegatus. “We can readily understand the many ways in which its publicity170 would compromise your endeavors to render us aid, and you can rely upon our watchful171 discretion and submission172 to your direction. But I would wish to be resolved upon a subject all important for the fulfillment of our higher responsibility? Your discursive173 narration174 of events in your locomotive attainments175, has implied a reliance upon a higher source of aid than our gods. It would appear that you claim for creation a sole Creator, who has bestowed176 upon mankind a duality, compounded of instinct for the support and prompting of material manifestations of the body, with an affectionate guide in readiness for an alliance to perfect individuality for a happy earthly initiation177 of the animus into the blissful current of immortality? This has reflected through the darkness of our customary usages a path of light, most cheering in prospect of immortality! Do you deny the existence of Gods whose favors are to be propitiated178 with acceptable prayers and sacrifices?”
Giganteo. “We have within ourselves all sufficient evidence of a supreme179 Creator, who has created mankind with a privileged superiority from an alliance with affectionate purity and goodness. A knowledge of this optional endowment we have derived from its practical observance in exampled association, founded upon an educated preference above, and for the affectionate direction of our bodies self-sustaining instincts. Of our method of education, which adapts the body’s instincts for the allied180 entertainment of animus purity and goodness for affectionate anticipations181 of immortality, we will practically instruct you in season for adoption182.”
Indegatus. “Then you not only deny the existence of our Gods, but erect183 an altar within the body for the sacrifice of animal passions, in purification for the 171reception of a proffered185 alliance with affectionate goodness?”
Giganteo. “Your quick comprehension surprises me! It will, however, lead you to a ready appreciation of our system of education for insuring allied reciprocation.”
Indegatus. “The cause of my augur sight is that my parents offered with example a happy impression of attainments in kind with those you describe. But as the hour of reflection approaches I will ask you to join us, that you may be refreshed, for the continuation of your suggestive history, with its application to our needs under the direction of your people!”
Giganteo. “Gratias, for your kind proffer184! But I must not allow my appetite to act the parasite186 in your famishing need. My wife occupies the howdah of the phaeton, and has brought at least a month’s provision, so that in our plenty we are better able to share with you, and I should, at least in the form of courtesy, have asked you to test Leoptilea’s skill in the culinary art; for I can assure you, she has an excellent reputation in the art of appetizing food combinations.”
Gnipho and his brother, with all their restraining efforts, could not refrain from a hearty187 outburst of merriment at this courteous188 sally of the Dosch, whose commissary stores for a month’s supply for himself, wife, companions, and volantaphs, were the scarcely perceptible burden of a bee. Indegatus catching189 the infection, the trio startled the hereditary190 silence of the latifundium with the unusual echoes of jocund191 laughter, causing the distant laborers192 to suspend their occupations in wondering surprise at the vent73 of emotions which had been so long suppressed with the rule of discontent and anxiety. The cause of this ebullition lent his mitey chirrup to swell193 the chorus, and incite194 its continuance with Gnipho. Changing to the ear of Indegatus after the more urgent 172emotions had subsided195, the Dosch complimented him for his well preserved sympathetic mirthful tones of voice, expressing in commendation his surprise that the long disuse of mirth provocatives had not caused the resonance196 of his intonations197 to become dry and wheezy. Then, in continuation, he said, “Now that I have gained your kindly198 appreciation seasoned with the genial199 sympathy of a hearty laugh, I will rejoin my family while you are absent with yours during the heat of noontide.”
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adoption
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| n.采用，采纳，通过；收养 | |
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| n./v.树立，建立，使竖立；adj.直立的，垂直的 | |
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| v.献出，赠送；n.提议，建议 | |
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parasite
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| n.寄生虫；寄生菌；食客 | |
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hearty
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| adj.热情友好的；衷心的；尽情的，纵情的 | |
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| adj.彬彬有礼的，客气的 | |
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catching
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| adj.易传染的，有魅力的，迷人的，接住 | |
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hereditary
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| adj.遗传的，遗传性的，可继承的，世袭的 | |
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jocund
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| adj.快乐的，高兴的 | |
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laborers
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| n.体力劳动者，工人( laborer的名词复数 )；（熟练工人的）辅助工 | |
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swell
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| vi.膨胀，肿胀；增长，增强 | |
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| v.引起，激动，煽动 | |
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| v.（土地）下陷（因在地下采矿）( subside的过去式和过去分词 )；减弱；下降至较低或正常水平；一下子坐在椅子等上 | |
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resonance
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| n.洪亮；共鸣；共振 | |
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| n.语调，说话的抑扬顿挫( intonation的名词复数 )；（演奏或唱歌中的）音准 | |
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| adj.亲切的，和蔼的，愉快的，脾气好的 | |
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