Do you show a tropical calm without?
then, be sure a thousand contrary currents whirl and eddy within.

The free, airy robe of your philosophy is but a dream, which seems true while it lasts; but waking again into the orthodox world, straightway you resume the old habit.

And though in your dreams you may hie to the uttermost Orient, yet all the while you abide where you are.

Babbalanja, you mortals dwell in Mardi, and it is impossible to get elsewhere." Said Babbalanja, "My lord, you school me.

But though I dissent from some of your positions, I am willing to confess, that this is not the first time a philosopher has been instructed by a man." "A demi-god, sir; and therefore I the more readily discharge my mind of all seriousness, touching the subject, with which you mortals so vex and torment yourselves." Silence ensued.