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Granser
recollected
himself
,
and
with
a
start
tore
himself
away
from
the
rostrum
of
the
lecture-hall
,
where
,
to
another
world
audience
,
he
had
been
expounding
the
latest
theory
,
sixty
years
gone
,
of
germs
and
germ-diseases
.
"
Yes
,
yes
,
Edwin
;
I
had
forgotten
.
Sometimes
the
memory
of
the
past
is
very
strong
upon
me
,
and
I
forget
that
I
am
a
dirty
old
man
,
clad
in
goat-skin
,
wandering
with
my
savage
grandsons
who
are
goatherds
in
the
primeval
wilderness
.
'
The
fleeting
systems
lapse
like
foam
,
'
and
so
lapsed
our
glorious
,
colossal
civilization
.
I
am
Granser
,
a
tired
old
man
.
I
belong
to
the
tribe
of
Santa
Rosans
.
I
married
into
that
tribe
.
My
sons
and
daughters
married
into
the
Chauffeurs
,
the
Sacramen-tos
,
and
the
Palo-Altos
.
You
,
Hare-Lip
,
are
of
the
Chauffeurs
.
You
,
Edwin
,
are
of
the
Sacramentos
.
And
you
,
Hoo-Hoo
,
are
of
the
Palo-Altos
.
Your
tribe
takes
its
name
from
a
town
that
was
near
the
seat
of
another
great
institution
of
learning
.
It
was
called
Stanford
University
.
Yes
,
I
remember
now
.
It
is
perfectly
clear
.
I
was
telling
you
of
the
Scarlet
Death
.
Where
was
I
in
my
story
?
"
"
You
was
telling
about
germs
,
the
things
you
ca
n't
see
but
which
make
men
sick
,
"
Edwin
prompted
.
"
Yes
,
that
's
where
I
was
.
A
man
did
not
notice
at
first
when
only
a
few
of
these
germs
got
into
his
body
.
But
each
germ
broke
in
half
and
became
two
germs
,
and
they
kept
doing
this
very
rapidly
so
that
in
a
short
time
there
were
many
millions
of
them
in
the
body
.
Then
the
man
was
sick
.
He
had
a
disease
,
and
the
disease
was
named
after
the
kind
of
a
germ
that
was
in
him
.
It
might
be
measles
,
it
might
be
influenza
,
it
might
be
yellow
fever
;
it
might
be
any
of
thousands
and
thousands
of
kinds
of
diseases
.
"
Now
this
is
the
strange
thing
about
these
germs
.
There
were
always
new
ones
coming
to
live
in
men
's
bodies
.
Long
and
long
and
long
ago
,
when
there
were
only
a
few
men
in
the
world
,
there
were
few
diseases
.
But
as
men
increased
and
lived
closely
together
in
great
cities
and
civilizations
,
new
diseases
arose
,
new
kinds
of
germs
entered
their
bodies
.
Thus
were
countless
millions
and
billions
of
human
beings
killed
.
And
the
more
thickly
men
packed
together
,
the
more
terrible
were
the
new
diseases
that
came
to
be
.
Long
before
my
time
,
in
the
middle
ages
,
there
was
the
Black
Plague
that
swept
across
Europe
.
It
swept
across
Europe
many
times
.
There
was
tuberculosis
,
that
entered
into
men
wherever
they
were
thickly
packed
.
A
hundred
years
before
my
time
there
was
the
bubonic
plague
.
And
in
Africa
was
the
sleeping
sickness
.
The
bacteriologists
fought
all
these
sicknesses
and
destroyed
them
,
just
as
you
boys
fight
the
wolves
away
from
your
goats
,
or
squash
the
mosquitoes
that
light
on
you
.
The
bacteriologists
--
"
"
But
,
Granser
,
what
is
a
what-you-call-it
?
"
Edwin
interrupted
.
"
You
,
Edwin
,
are
a
goatherd
.
Your
task
is
to
watch
the
goats
.
You
know
a
great
deal
about
goats
.
A
bacteriologist
watches
germs
.
That
's
his
task
,
and
he
knows
a
great
deal
about
them
.
So
,
as
I
was
saying
,
the
bacteriologists
fought
with
the
germs
and
destroyed
them
--
sometimes
.
There
was
leprosy
,
a
horrible
disease
.
A
hundred
years
before
I
was
born
,
the
bacteriologists
discovered
the
germ
of
leprosy
.
They
knew
all
about
it
.
They
made
pictures
of
it
.
I
have
seen
those
pictures
.
But
they
never
found
a
way
to
kill
it
.
But
in
1984
,
there
was
the
Pantoblast
Plague
,
a
disease
that
broke
out
in
a
country
called
Brazil
and
that
killed
millions
of
people
.
But
the
bacteriologists
found
it
out
,
and
found
the
way
to
kill
it
,
so
that
the
Pantoblast
Plague
went
no
farther
.
They
made
what
they
called
a
serum
,
which
they
put
into
a
man
's
body
and
which
killed
the
pantoblast
germs
without
killing
the
man
.
And
in
1910
,
there
was
Pellagra
,
and
also
the
hookworm
.
These
were
easily
killed
by
the
bacteriologists
.
But
in
1947
there
arose
a
new
disease
that
had
never
been
seen
before
.
It
got
into
the
bodies
of
babies
of
only
ten
months
old
or
less
,
and
it
made
them
unable
to
move
their
hands
and
feet
,
or
to
eat
,
or
anything
;
and
the
bacteriologists
were
eleven
years
in
discovering
how
to
kill
that
particular
germ
and
save
the
babies
.
"
In
spite
of
all
these
diseases
,
and
of
all
the
new
ones
that
continued
to
arise
,
there
were
more
and
more
men
in
the
world
.
This
was
because
it
was
easy
to
get
food
.
The
easier
it
was
to
get
food
,
the
more
men
there
were
;
the
more
men
there
were
,
the
more
thickly
were
they
packed
together
on
the
earth
;
and
the
more
thickly
they
were
packed
,
the
more
new
kinds
of
germs
became
diseases
.
There
were
warnings
.
Soldervetzsky
,
as
early
as
1929
,
told
the
bacteriologists
that
they
had
no
guaranty
against
some
new
disease
,
a
thousand
times
more
deadly
than
any
they
knew
,
arising
and
killing
by
the
hundreds
of
millions
and
even
by
the
billion
.
You
see
,
the
micro-organic
world
remained
a
mystery
to
the
end
.
They
knew
there
was
such
a
world
,
and
that
from
time
to
time
armies
of
new
germs
emerged
from
it
to
kill
men
.
"
And
that
was
all
they
knew
about
it
.
For
all
they
knew
,
in
that
invisible
micro-organic
world
there
might
be
as
many
different
kinds
of
germs
as
there
are
grains
of
sand
on
this
beach
.
And
also
,
in
that
same
invisible
world
it
might
well
be
that
new
kinds
of
germs
came
to
be
.
It
might
be
there
that
life
originated
--
the
'
abysmal
fecundity
,
'
Soldervetzsky
called
it
,
applying
the
words
of
other
men
who
had
written
before
him
...
"
