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"
At
what
?
"
he
inquired
,
still
smiling
.
"
Oh
,
at
the
humbug
of
everything
,
"
--
I
answered
impatiently
;
"
The
stupid
farce
of
it
all
.
Why
should
n't
a
book
get
noticed
on
its
own
merits
without
any
appeal
to
cliquism
and
influential
wire-pulling
on
the
press
?
"
"
Exactly
!
"
and
he
delicately
flicked
a
grain
of
dust
off
his
coat
while
speaking
--
"
And
why
should
n't
a
man
get
received
in
society
on
his
own
merits
,
without
any
money
to
recommend
him
or
any
influential
friend
to
back
him
up
?
"
I
was
silent
.
"
The
world
is
as
it
is
made
,
"
--
he
went
on
,
regarding
me
fixedly
--
"
It
is
moved
by
the
lowest
and
pettiest
motives
--
it
works
for
the
most
trivial
,
ridiculous
and
perishable
aims
.
It
is
not
a
paradise
.
It
is
not
a
happy
family
of
united
and
affectionate
brethren
.
It
is
an
over-populated
colony
of
jabbering
and
quarrelsome
monkeys
,
who
fancy
they
are
men
.
Philosophers
in
old
days
tried
to
teach
it
that
the
monkey-type
should
be
exterminated
for
the
growth
and
encouragement
of
a
nobler
race
--
but
they
preached
in
vain
--
there
never
were
enough
real
men
alive
to
overcome
the
swarming
majority
of
the
beasts
.
God
Himself
,
they
say
,
came
down
from
Heaven
to
try
and
set
wrong
things
right
,
and
to
restore
if
possible
His
own
defaced
image
to
the
general
aspect
of
humanity
--
and
even
He
failed
.
"
"
There
is
very
little
of
God
in
this
world
"
--
I
said
bitterly
;
"
There
is
much
more
Devil
!
"
He
smiled
--
a
musing
,
dreamy
smile
that
transfigured
his
countenance
and
made
him
look
like
a
fine
Apollo
absorbed
in
the
thought
of
some
new
and
glorious
song
.
"
No
doubt
!
"
he
said
,
after
a
little
pause
--
"
Mankind
certainly
prefer
the
devil
to
any
other
deity
--
therefore
if
they
elect
him
as
their
representative
,
it
is
scarcely
to
be
wondered
at
that
he
governs
where
he
is
asked
to
govern
.
And
yet
--
do
you
know
Geoffrey
--
this
devil
--
if
there
is
one
--
can
hardly
,
I
think
,
be
quite
so
bad
as
his
detractors
say
.
I
myself
do
n't
believe
he
is
a
whit
worse
than
a
nineteenth-century
financier
!
"
I
laughed
aloud
at
the
comparison
.
"
After
that
,
"
I
said
--
"
you
had
better
go
to
McWhing
.
I
hope
you
will
tell
him
that
I
am
the
triple
essence
of
all
the
newest
'
discoveries
'
rolled
into
one
!
"
