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Marshal and the Baron tore away each other's orders, and both 

 fell to kicking their master. 



Suddenly, however, there appeared the figure of a tall old 

 man with a long white beard, who was dressed in an old robe 

 figured with quaint mathematical designs ; and by his side 

 there stood a beautiful lady with tears running down her 

 cheeks — wherever her tears fell there sprang up wonderful 

 flowers. " So," said the Magician, " you see what you have 

 done, wicked Caliban — you and your friends, Trinculo and 

 Stephano. I cannot leave you for a moment, but that you 

 attempt some foolish trick of this kind. How do you dare to 

 wave my staff when you do not know how to use it ? Down 

 again for another hundred years. See if you cannot learn more 

 wisdom this time." Everywhere in the air was heard the 

 laughter of spiritual voices as Ariel and his sprites chased 

 Caliban, Trinculo, and Stephano down from that wonderful 

 mountain. 



Men in the mass see the wonders round them — engines which 

 move on the land and the sea and in the air, messages borne 

 about the earth, great poems, works of art, sublime music, and 

 the stored wisdom of ages — and imagine that they have made 

 them. Therefore they conceive themselves to be the children 

 of God, the inheritors of immortality, and, indeed, nothing but 

 gods themselves and above the order of nature. But it is not 

 they who have done these things. The wonders were made not 

 by them but by beings of another order who toil, plan, and 

 think incessantly and who perish because of it. But see the 

 masses of men. Do they not toil only for their own ends, to 

 collect wealth or to earn small pleasures ? After their school- 

 days, what do they do to improve themselves or to benefit 

 humanity ? See them, for example, in hours of leisure (as upon 

 board ship) : nearly all of them do nothing but sleep, eat, play 

 silly games, and look at silly books containing silly pictures — 

 and so their life is spent. Not only have they not made the 

 wonders referred to, but they are not capable of making them ; 

 not one in a thousand of them ever has a new idea ; and not 

 one in a thousand of these has the capacity to bring a new 

 idea to maturity. They have learnt a few tricks which they 

 call professions ; but outside these domains they know nothing 



