[The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories CHAPTER 7 23/41
The elephant would not take the trouble to do the spider an ill turn; if he took the notion he might do him a good turn, if it came in his way and cost nothing.
I have done men good service, but no ill turns. "The elephant lives a century, the red spider a day; in power, intellect, and dignity the one creature is separated from the other by a distance which is simply astronomical.
Yet in these, as in all qualities, man is immeasurably further below me than is the wee spider below the elephant. "Man's mind clumsily and tediously and laboriously patches little trivialities together and gets a result--such as it is.
My mind creates! Do you get the force of that? Creates anything it desires--and in a moment.
Creates without material.
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