The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.Smile, R. Elton
Science
The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.
Smile, R. Elton
Science fiction, American
The initiatory discipline of the scholar entering upon his senior term,
induces the tractor disposition of the censorial advisor, in association
with his juniors; in place of your form system of “bullying” the nether
“fag,” whose weakness makes submission a virtue, when subject to the
classical distinctions of arbitrary power. The seniors become assistant
tutors to the censors and teachers from the age of fourteen until the
close of their twenty-third year, when they graduate; and after a
probationary term of three months’ “courtship,” with the connubial
censors’ selection of affiances, are married. This cursory glance will
serve for an introductory insight into our natural system of education
designed for the direction of our immortal endowment in perceptive
flight above the body’s ephemeral gratification of instinctive desire.
“Of other matters, pertaining to our actual realization of an enduring
happiness, you will be advised by our advisors; as our interview was
designed solely for your recognition and realization of our existence as
a race in diminuendo alliance with your own. Our associations with your
race are of a privileged description, which from the concentrated
acuteness of our sensitive perceptions, enables us to divine your
thoughts by auramental espionage. If you will give a moment’s
investigation to the impressions of thought, when free from the turmoil
of suspicious doubts, which now assail and render your efforts for
reasonable perception void, you will find that they are all distinctly
enunciated in the thalmus auditorium, which is the focal centre for
maturing sensorial observations. Our size, and practical knowledge of
the sensitive departments of your ears, enables our giantescoes to gain
the aural sinus without provoking titillation, and its proximity to the
vibrating portal, or vellum auditorium, permits our sensitive
perceptions of sound to realize your thought articulations before they
are matured for retentive comparison, or the vocalized utterances of
speech communication. So that in reality, we hold the gigas (the name
word we use for the designation of your race in contradistinction to our
own) subject to our direction, when free from the ruling habits of
instinctive indulgence, which defy control. As the previous knowledge of
our advisers has preferred you to their confidence, I will state that
our means of direction are through thought substitution, which the
giantesco is able to modulate with ventriloquial variations of voice for
the receptive nullification of those derived from their own sensoriums.
Of course, the effects vary with the intensity of the subject’s command
over his own sensorium, and the absorbing influence of educated
impressions imparted from habits and customs. As an example, I will now
state that M. Hollydorf, in his turmoil of doubts, feels that Mistress
Correliana has in some way imposed upon his confidence; but my informer
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