{"id":2411,"date":"2018-08-17T17:56:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/89-ride-and-tie\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:13","slug":"89-ride-and-tie","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/89-ride-and-tie\/","title":{"raw":"89. <i>Ride and Tie<\/i>.","rendered":"89. <i>Ride and Tie<\/i>."},"content":{"raw":" <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/205\" target=\"new\">187<\/a><\/span> <p>\"On a scheme of perfect retribution in the moral world\"\u2014(observed Empeiristes, and paused to look at, and wipe his spectacles.)\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\"Frogs (interposed Musaello) must have been experimental philosophers, and experimental philosophers must all transmigrate into frogs.\"<\/p>\n<p>The scheme will not be yet perfect, (added Gelon) unless our friend Empeiristes, is specially privileged to become an <i>elect<\/i> frog twenty times successively, before he reascends into a <i>Galvanic<\/i> philosopher.<\/p>\n<p>\"Well, well,\" (replied Empeiristes, with a benignant smile) I give my <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/206\" target=\"new\">188<\/a><\/span>consent, if only our little Mary's fits do not recur.\"<\/p>\n<p>Little Mary was Gelon's only child, &amp; the darling &amp; god-daughter of Empeiristes. 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The tear started into Gelon's eye, and he prest the hand of his friend, while Musaello half-suppressing, half-indulging a similar sense Of shame, sportively exclaimed\u2014 \"Hang it, Gelon! somehow or other these philosopher fellows always have the better of us wits, in the long run!\"<\/p>\n \n","rendered":"<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/205\" target=\"new\">187<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On a scheme of perfect retribution in the moral world&#8221;\u2014(observed Empeiristes, and paused to look at, and wipe his spectacles.)\u2014<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Frogs (interposed Musaello) must have been experimental philosophers, and experimental philosophers must all transmigrate into frogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The scheme will not be yet perfect, (added Gelon) unless our friend Empeiristes, is specially privileged to become an <i>elect<\/i> frog twenty times successively, before he reascends into a <i>Galvanic<\/i> philosopher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, well,&#8221; (replied Empeiristes, with a benignant smile) I give my <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/206\" target=\"new\">188<\/a><\/span>consent, if only our little Mary&#8217;s fits do not recur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Little Mary was Gelon&#8217;s only child, &amp; the darling &amp; god-daughter of Empeiristes. 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