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Cavor
was
continually
making
corrections
in
his
previous
accounts
of
the
Selenites
as
fresh
facts
flowed
upon
him
to
modify
his
conclusions
,
and
accordingly
one
gives
the
quotations
that
follow
with
a
certain
amount
of
reservation
.
They
are
quoted
from
the
ninth
,
thirteenth
,
and
sixteenth
messages
,
and
,
altogether
vague
and
fragmentary
as
they
are
,
they
probably
give
as
complete
a
picture
of
the
social
life
of
this
strange
community
as
mankind
can
now
hope
to
have
for
many
generations
.
"
In
the
moon
,
"
says
Cavor
,
"
every
citizen
knows
his
place
.
He
is
born
to
that
place
,
and
the
elaborate
discipline
of
training
and
education
and
surgery
he
undergoes
fits
him
at
last
so
completely
to
it
that
he
has
neither
ideas
nor
organs
for
any
purpose
beyond
it
.
'
Why
should
he
?
'
Phi-oo
would
ask
.
If
,
for
example
,
a
Selenite
is
destined
to
be
a
mathematician
,
his
teachers
and
trainers
set
out
at
once
to
that
end
.
They
check
any
incipient
disposition
to
other
pursuits
,
they
encourage
his
mathematical
bias
with
a
perfect
psychological
skill
.
His
brain
grows
,
or
at
least
the
mathematical
faculties
of
his
brain
grow
,
and
the
rest
of
him
only
so
much
as
is
necessary
to
sustain
this
essential
part
of
him
.
At
last
,
save
for
rest
and
food
,
his
one
delight
lies
in
the
exercise
and
display
of
his
faculty
,
his
one
interest
in
its
application
,
his
sole
society
with
other
specialists
in
his
own
line
.
His
brain
grows
continually
larger
,
at
least
so
far
as
the
portions
engaging
in
mathematics
are
concerned
;
they
bulge
ever
larger
and
seem
to
suck
all
life
and
vigour
from
the
rest
of
his
frame
.
His
limbs
shrivel
,
his
heart
and
digestive
organs
diminish
,
his
insect
face
is
hidden
under
its
bulging
contours
.
His
voice
becomes
a
mere
stridulation
for
the
stating
of
formulæ
;
he
seems
deaf
to
all
but
properly
enunciated
problems
.
The
faculty
of
laughter
,
save
for
the
sudden
discovery
of
some
paradox
,
is
lost
to
him
;
his
deepest
emotion
is
the
evolution
of
a
novel
computation
.
And
so
he
attains
his
end
.
"
Or
,
again
,
a
Selenite
appointed
to
be
a
minder
of
mooncalves
is
from
his
earliest
years
induced
to
think
and
live
mooncalf
,
to
find
his
pleasure
in
mooncalf
lore
,
his
exercise
in
their
tending
and
pursuit
.
He
is
trained
to
become
wiry
and
active
,
his
eye
is
indurated
to
the
tight
wrappings
,
the
angular
contours
that
constitute
a
'
smart
mooncalfishness
.
'
He
takes
at
last
no
interest
in
the
deeper
part
of
the
moon
;
he
regards
all
Selenites
not
equally
versed
in
mooncalves
with
indifference
,
derision
,
or
hostility
.
His
thoughts
are
of
mooncalf
pastures
,
and
his
dialect
an
accomplished
mooncalf
technique
.
So
also
he
loves
his
work
,
and
discharges
in
perfect
happiness
the
duty
that
justifies
his
being
.
And
so
it
is
with
all
sorts
and
conditions
of
Selenites
--
each
is
a
perfect
unit
in
a
world
machine
...
"
These
beings
with
big
heads
,
on
whom
the
intellectual
labours
fall
,
form
a
sort
of
aristocracy
in
this
strange
society
,
and
at
the
head
of
them
,
quintessential
of
the
moon
,
is
that
marvellous
gigantic
ganglion
the
Grand
Lunar
,
into
whose
presence
I
am
finally
to
come
.
The
unlimited
development
of
the
minds
of
the
intellectual
class
is
rendered
possible
by
the
absence
of
any
bony
skull
in
the
lunar
anatomy
,
that
strange
box
of
bone
that
clamps
about
the
developing
brain
of
man
,
imperiously
insisting
'
thus
far
and
no
farther
'
to
all
his
possibilities
.
They
fall
into
three
main
classes
differing
greatly
in
influence
and
respect
.
There
are
administrators
,
of
whom
Phi-oo
is
one
,
Selenites
of
considerable
initiative
and
versatility
,
responsible
each
for
a
certain
cubic
content
of
the
moon
's
bulk
;
the
experts
like
the
football-headed
thinker
,
who
are
trained
to
perform
certain
special
operations
;
and
the
erudite
,
who
are
the
repositories
of
all
knowledge
.
To
the
latter
class
belongs
Tsi-puff
,
the
first
lunar
professor
of
terrestrial
languages
.
With
regard
to
these
latter
,
it
is
a
curious
little
thing
to
note
that
the
unlimited
growth
of
the
lunar
brain
has
rendered
unnecessary
the
invention
of
all
those
mechanical
aids
to
brain
work
which
have
distinguished
the
career
of
man
.
There
are
no
books
,
no
records
of
any
sort
,
no
libraries
or
inscriptions
.
All
knowledge
is
stored
in
distended
brains
much
as
the
honey-ants
of
Texas
store
honey
in
their
distended
abdomens
.
The
lunar
Somerset
House
and
the
lunar
British
Museum
Library
are
collections
of
living
brains
...
"
The
less
specialised
administrators
,
I
note
,
do
for
the
most
part
take
a
very
lively
interest
in
me
whenever
they
encounter
me
.
They
will
come
out
of
the
way
and
stare
at
me
and
ask
questions
to
which
Phi-oo
will
reply
.
I
see
them
going
hither
and
thither
with
a
retinue
of
bearers
,
attendants
,
shouters
,
parachute-carriers
,
and
so
forth
--
queer
groups
to
see
.
The
experts
for
the
most
part
ignore
me
completely
,
even
as
they
ignore
each
other
,
or
notice
me
only
to
begin
a
clamorous
exhibition
of
their
distinctive
skill
.
The
erudite
for
the
most
part
are
rapt
in
an
impervious
and
apoplectic
complacency
,
from
which
only
a
denial
of
their
erudition
can
rouse
them
.
Usually
they
are
led
about
by
little
watchers
and
attendants
,
and
often
there
are
small
and
active-looking
creatures
,
small
females
usually
,
that
I
am
inclined
to
think
are
a
sort
of
wife
to
them
;
but
some
of
the
profounder
scholars
are
altogether
too
great
for
locomotion
,
and
are
carried
from
place
to
place
in
a
sort
of
sedan
tub
,
wabbling
jellies
of
knowledge
that
enlist
my
respectful
astonishment
.
I
have
just
passed
one
in
coming
to
this
place
where
I
am
permitted
to
amuse
myself
with
these
electrical
toys
,
a
vast
,
shaven
,
shaky
head
,
bald
and
thin-skinned
,
carried
on
his
grotesque
stretcher
.
In
front
and
behind
came
his
bearers
,
and
curious
,
almost
trumpet-faced
,
news
disseminators
shrieked
his
fame
.
"
I
have
already
mentioned
the
retinues
that
accompany
most
of
the
intellectuals
:
ushers
,
bearers
,
valets
,
extraneous
tentacles
and
muscles
,
as
it
were
,
to
replace
the
abortive
physical
powers
of
these
hypertrophied
minds
.
Porters
almost
invariably
accompany
them
.
There
are
also
extremely
swift
messengers
with
spider-like
legs
and
'
hands
'
for
grasping
parachutes
,
and
attendants
with
vocal
organs
that
could
well
nigh
wake
the
dead
.
Apart
from
their
controlling
intelligence
these
subordinates
are
as
inert
and
helpless
as
umbrellas
in
a
stand
.
They
exist
only
in
relation
to
the
orders
they
have
to
obey
,
the
duties
they
have
to
perform
.
"
The
bulk
of
these
insects
,
however
,
who
go
to
and
fro
upon
the
spiral
ways
,
who
fill
the
ascending
balloons
and
drop
past
me
clinging
to
flimsy
parachutes
are
,
I
gather
,
of
the
operative
class
.
'
Machine
hands
,
'
indeed
,
some
of
these
are
in
actual
nature
--
it
is
no
figure
of
speech
,
the
single
tentacle
of
the
mooncalf
herd
is
profoundly
modified
for
clawing
,
lifting
,
guiding
,
the
rest
of
them
no
more
than
necessary
subordinate
appendages
to
these
important
parts
.
Some
,
who
I
suppose
deal
with
bell-striking
mechanisms
,
have
enormously
developed
auditory
organs
;
some
whose
work
lies
in
delicate
chemical
operations
project
a
vast
olfactory
organ
;
others
again
have
flat
feet
for
treadles
with
anchylosed
joints
;
and
others
--
who
I
have
been
told
are
glassblowers
--
seem
mere
lung-bellows
.
But
every
one
of
these
common
Selenites
I
have
seen
at
work
is
exquisitely
adapted
to
the
social
need
it
meets
.
Fine
work
is
done
by
fined-down
workers
,
amazingly
dwarfed
and
neat
.
