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...Aldous Huxley's it is quite as plausible as highly intelligent satire need be. In his hands, too, it is the excuse and occasion for the things he particularly wants to talk about. Scattered in short (but stiff) doses throughout the narrative, they are spoken by a Mr. Propter, the straightest and maturest straight man Mr. Huxley has ever permitted himself. As he speaks them, they are some of the firmest, most beautifully articulate essays Huxley has ever written...
...Black may be white, and Mr. Baker may be Galahad fresh from the Table Round, as the Bar tactfully suggested, but public opinion has been quite definitely on the other side. One would, of course, like to think that the appointment is a case of "post hoc sed non propter hoc," and this thesis is just about as sincere as Mussolini's recent self-appointment as the Abraham Lincoln of the dark continent...
...vitam temere judicent, si quid eos fortasse reprehensibiliter vident"; in hasty translation "subjects must be admonished not to judge rashly of the conduct of their rulers, even if they see them, by chance, acting reprehensibly." In Ambrosiaster's "Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti", XXXV, the ruler "Honorandusest, si non propter se, vel propter ordinem"; "he must be honored, if not for himself, then for his position." And so it goes, everywhere in the standard ecclesiastical commentary on the Old Testament, as well as in the Old Testament itself, this same submission to the ruler is ordained...
Post Hoc Ergo Propter...
...will come next week. Finally, it brings good luck. The day after receiving my first copy, I, for the first time in my life discovered a pearl (not, unfortunately, a pearl of great price, but nevertheless a pearl) in an oyster. By using the post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument which is so popular today, might we not say that TIME brought me a pearl...