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I am well out of it. I am the savant untamed; they the savants
civilized. Doctors cavil at the learned. False science is the excrement
of the true, and is employed to the destruction of philosophers.
Philosophers, as they produce sophists, produce their own scourge. Of
the dung of the thrush is born the mistletoe, with which is made
birdlime, with which the thrush is captured. Turdus sibi malum cacat."
We do not represent Ursus as a refined man. He was imprudent enough to
use words which expressed his thoughts. He had no more taste than
Voltaire.
When Ursus returned to the Green Box, he told Master Nicless that he
had been delayed by following a pretty woman, and let not a word escape
him concerning his adventure.
Except in the evening when he said in a low voice to Homo,--
"See here, I have vanquished the three heads of Cerberus."
CHAPTER VII.
WHY SHOULD A GOLD PIECE LOWER ITSELF BY MIXING WITH A HEAP OF
PENNIES?
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