The Pelican Papers (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Pelican Papers The extent of human folly tends to conceal its existence. This seems paradoxical, but that does not seem folly which is judged by fools, and fools are the great majority. With philosophic study of the workings of the human animaltutum, there ever comes not only wonder at its folly, but at its vanity, its pretention, its incongruous action, its conventional absurdities. A fool, in the philosophic sense, each has been or is, and a complete graduation from the ranks is rare. Folly is natural or conventional - the one class springs from ignorance, the other from association. One worships the idols of the race, the other those of the agora or market place. The natural fool cares ¬ he remains ignorant of his status; he worships with colored eyes; if possibly reformed, there will be comfort in self-comparison. To the conventional fool there is positive complacency in his folly; for he and those with him are in an acting majority. A majority over the wise makes Folly and its worshippers lawful, normal and respectable - qualis grex talis rex. Hence, although Nature may be lovely, Fashion makes art and artifice more so; Custom will prevail even if it bringeth evil or death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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