Although this is a very short excerpt from a story Fri Mikromegas, however much it speaks to us of our human nature. Therefore, it is worth devoting for him a few minutes of life ..
VII. Talking with people
O, smart atoms, which pleased the eternal essence demonstrate his skill and power, you have undoubtedly cost you in your joy of a clean planet, with so little material and being, seemingly, the spirit of "Only you have to spend life this, to love and think: this is real life ghosts. I have not seen anywhere else and perfect happiness, but it has to live here without a doubt.
At this remark is the philosophers shook their heads; one hand, more honest than others, just confessed that if you turn off a slim number of people taking a very low gravity, the rest is a collection of lunatics, thieves and unhappy people.
- We have more material than you need - he said - to do evil, if evil comes from matter, and too much of the spirit, if evil comes from spirit. Did you know, for example, that when I speak to you, a hundred thousand madmen of our species, wearing hats, murdered one hundred thousand other creatures, dressed in a turban, or killed with their hands and that almost the entire surface of the ground dealt with in this way since time immemorial? Syrian trembled, he said, what may be the cause of this terrible feud between the frail animals.
- mean - "said the philosopher - with a pile of mud so much as your heel. That does not mean that any of the thousands of people zarzynających each other probably had a grudge to the crumbs from the pile of mud. Goes only to declare whether it belonged to a man whom they call the Sultan or the other, called, I do not know why, Caesar. Or one nor the other has not seen, and certainly never see this corner of the earth and with almost no zwietrząt to kill each other, has not seen the animal for which goes to the slaughter.
- Ha! Unhappy! - Exclaimed indignantly Syrian - are-you to the concept of the immensity of madness and rage! Fancy takes me to do three things and crush the whole nest of these comic criminals.
- Do not be willing to work - said a man - rather they are working on their destruction. Note that for ten years forbid on earth, nor a hundredth part of the poor, knowing that even if no weapons dobyli, hunger, exhaustion or abuse, swept nearly all. Besides, they do not need to punish, but these seats wysiadujących barbarians, who from his office, digesting a delicious lunch, they order the slaughter of a million people, and later submitted a bid for the solemn thanks to God. The passenger felt in the heart of compassion for the small human race, in which discovering such amazing contradictions.
- If you belong to a slim number of wise men, and probably will not kill anyone for money, tell me please, what trudnicie?
- Sekcjonujemy flies - the philosopher replied - we measure the cost, collect digits, we agree with him about two or three points which we understand, and to argue for two or three thousand others who do not understand.
Syryjczykowi and resident of Saturn a fancy to ask a few questions that thinking atoms to learn about things which are unanimous.
- How liczycie - he said - from star to superstar Kanikuły Twins?
answered all at once: - Thirty-two degrees and a half.
- How many here on the moon?
- Sixty-earth radii, taking over again.
- How heavy is your air?
thought that You'll get them, but denied unanimously, that air weighs nearly nine hundred times the urban than gold ducats. Dwarf of Saturn, their answers surprised, he was ready to take the sorcerers of people who wanted to pray before the quarter of an hour of the soul. Finally
Mikromegas said
- Since you know so well what is outside of you, you know without a doubt better yet, what is inside. Tell me, what is your soul and how to begin thinking?
philosophers began to speak all at once, as before, but each had a different opinion. The oldest was quoting Aristotle, another referred to the Cartesian, that the Malebranche'a, another of Leibniz, another of Locke. Old peripatetic said out loud, firm tone:
- The soul is the entelechy, and the reason for which it has the possibility of existence, is that it exists. Thus Aristotle states explicitly, page 655, edition of the Louvre. He quoted a paragraph.
- do not quite understand the Greek - Said the giant.
- Neither did I - he said filozofujący worm.
- Why then - took the Syrian - quoting Aristotle in Greek?
- Ago - "said scholar - that it is useful to cite what you do not understand at all, in a language which is very poorly understood.
Kartezjanin spoke and said:
- The soul is pure spirit, which received the mother's womb all the metaphysical ideas of going out there and who must attend school and relearn everything he knew
so well and I will no longer be never knew.
- For nothing, then, has failed miserably - answered affirmatively ośmiomilowe animal - your soul to be so wise in the mother's womb, since he has not learned to be so then when you grow a beard. But what do you mean the ghost?
- What a question? - Replied the doc. - I do not know, they say that what does not matter.
- And did you know just what that matter?
- Ideal - replied the man. - For example, this stone is gray, is such and such a shape, has three dimensions, is a dragonfly and divisible.
- So what? - Syrian said. - But the thing that you think divisible, dragonfly and gray, will you tell me what is it? You see a few features, but do you know the essence of things?
- No - replied the man.
- then simply do not know what this matter.
Mikromegas Then, turning to another sage, whose hold on the big nail, asked what is his soul and what it does.
- nothing and nothing - from school, "replied the philosopher Malebranche'a. - God does everything for me, I can see everything in it, I'm doing everything in it, he does everything without my participation.
- So on the one that came out did not exist - replied the sage with Sirius.
- And you, my friend - he said to the disciple of Leibniz, who was standing nearby - tell me what is the soul?
- is - he replied leibnicysta - tip, which shows the hours when the body is calling, or if you prefer, call it when your body indicates the hour, or my soul is the mirror of the universe, the body and frame of this mirror: after all, it's very clear.
humble follower of Locke's standing right behind him, when he finally returned to him, he said,
- I do not know how to think, but I know that I always thought only through the senses. That there are intangible creations, and endowed with reason, no doubt, but that was to be niemożebne matter to God to bestow the power of thinking about it I doubt much. I worship the eternal power, not limit it befits me: I am not saying anything; satisfied with the conviction that there is more things możebnych than we imagine.
Monster Sirius smiled, this gentleman passed him perhaps the most sensible of all, the dwarf with Saturn would have embraced believer Locke'a51 if excessive imbalance dimensions did not prevent. But, there were, unfortunately, a small living creature in granitnej cap, which was interrupted by another filozofującym żyjątkom arguments. This individual stated that he knows all the secrets that all this is in the Summa St. Thomas, zmierzyło from head to toe walkers blue eyes, has proved to them in vivid eyes, that their persons, their worlds, suns, stars, everything is deliberately created for man. By commuters zatoczyli one on Second, choking on uncontrollable laughter that is shared according to Homer's gods, their arms and bellies just shook up among those konwulsyj ship that Syrian hold on nail, popped into the pockets of pludrów inhabitant of Saturn. Both poczciwcy sought him long, finally found the crew, odchuchali it well, and brought to a possible state. Syrians took to the worms back in the hand of men, spoke to them with great kindness, even though at heart he was a bit is measured to see that the infinitely small creatures hidden in the a pride infinitely great. He promised to arrange a beautiful book of philosophy, written a very fine, for their service and assured that this book will see the very core of things. In fact, this volume, presented to them before departure: he was taken to Paris, the Academy of Sciences. But when the old secretary opened it, saw only a white card: - Hm! - Muttered - I guessed that.
book on loan from the virtual ..
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