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A MAN
H AVING shaken his head with both hands as though he
were playing with dice, the man lets his thoughts
arrange themselves in equilibrium on the nervous
cords of his favorite instincts. “I have always disre
garded things that came from my mind,” he said with
out the slightest mocking smile. He looks in his pocket mirror
at his eyes with his eyes, charming coincidence. The little hole
opposite a little hole shows up the fine combination; all is
changed, nothing is changed, it is you? It is I. Boring one, it
is I. In the little hole in capitals of twelve one reads:
IT IS BETTER TO KILL ONE’S FATHER THAN TO
EAT NUTS or all other evidence: I think only by evidence.
Having shaken my head with my two hands I read in the same
apparatus before the fall of the dice, clickyty click. IT IS
BETTER TO EAT ONE’S FATHER THAN TO KILL
NUTS, then a click, the man’s eyes light up as though electri
cally lighted, his mouth speaks: “For, as to manners, every
body is so sure of his own point of view that it would be possible
to find as many reformers as there are heads” and doesn’t favor
the least in the world any other possibility.
The little society game distinguishes me from the animals (I
am a sociable animal) thanks to a pretty error which must be
considered: the false movement, effect of light giving freely and
without danger the impression of perpetual revolution, serve it
hot that thought-out reasoning, reasonably reasoning! draw a
line, you have the addition, make your total, the result will show
an increase of my personality, flattering conclusions on life; my
thermal season. The man opens his skull, with the index finger
of his right hand he moves the reluctant counting balls, closes
the box again, then with satisfaction shakes his head without his
hands: noise. Thus morals begin.
First, without other explanation than this invoked evidence
the man denies that there could ever be any answer to a theorem,
and affirms that corollaries are ways of speaking. That which
saves him from the trouble of examining its validity. Do not do
unto others that which you would not wish done unto you and its
analogues. All the cases are exceptions, impossible to be united