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This avocation had its hazards. Once, while the naturalist was still a medical student, a pet capuchin monkey named Gloria became bored and romped through his study. She dragged a bronze lamp across the room and heaved it into an aquarium. Then she unlocked a bookcase, removed Volumes 2 and 4 of Strumpel's textbooks of medicine, tore them to shreds and stuffed them in the fish tank. Lorenz returned to find fuses blown, empty book covers on the floor, and his sea anemones tangled in torn paper...
...beneath the surface glamour, there was plenty of hard work and courage. Withington had practiced diligently at his Holworthy aquarium, starting with small fish and gradually working up to the four incher he swallowed at the Friday night Union performance...
...complacent observer of high taxes points out that all the money somehow comes back to the people. A fresh-water clam in the well-balanced home aquarium pumps through his voracious valves nine gallons of water a day, yet the fish around it do not starve. Rather, the tank is purified in the redistribution. So the Government pumps it in, and pumps it out for the greatest good of the greatest number. That's the idea...
...invested in productive improvements that can make more of the things that people use. But money that goes to the Government, especially beyond Clark's 25% limit, adds to the demand for products far faster than it creates the means of making more products. The clam in the aquarium is no longer performing a service; he is eating what the fish need...
...test his hunch, Lissmann touched the water with two electrodes connected with an oscillograph. When the two-way fish swam near, a series of regular electrial pulses showed on the oscillograph een. Then Lissmann dipped ends of a copper wire into .the aquarium. The little fish fled in terror, its radar apparently mistaking the wire for a bigger and hostile fash. It also fled from a wire carrying artificial electric pulses. But when Professor Lissmann fed its own pulses back into the water, the fish attacked the electrodes presumably taking them for a rival of its own species...