{"id":"01KG8AK98GBY7PZJNJJEBDPY1B","cid":"bafkreihkynq5a42gl3jaus7pkhjykeks33qut3e7456vkt3rve7gsitaee","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":7940,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.725Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 8","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":7872,"text":"previous occupation, better fitted than the professional person in\r\nquestion.\"\r\n\r\n\"Are you in earnest?\" regarding the serene speaker with unaffected\r\ncuriosity; \"are you really in earnest?\"\r\n\r\n\"I trust I am never otherwise,\" was the mildly earnest reply; \"but\r\ntalking of the advance of geniality, I am not without hopes that it\r\nwill eventually exert its influence even upon so difficult a subject as\r\nthe misanthrope.\"\r\n\r\n\"A genial misanthrope! I thought I had stretched the rope pretty hard in\r\ntalking of genial hangmen. A genial misanthrope is no more conceivable\r\nthan a surly philanthropist.\"\r\n\r\n\"True,\" lightly depositing in an unbroken little cylinder the ashes of\r\nhis cigar, \"true, the two you name are well opposed.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why, you talk as if there _was_ such a being as a surly\r\nphilanthropist.\"\r\n\r\n\"I do. My eccentric friend, whom you call Coonskins, is an example. Does\r\nhe not, as I explained to you, hide under a surly air a philanthropic\r\nheart? Now, the genial misanthrope, when, in the process of eras, he\r\nshall turn up, will be the converse of this; under an affable air, he\r\nwill hide a misanthropical heart. In short, the genial misanthrope will\r\nbe a new kind of monster, but still no small improvement upon the\r\noriginal one, since, instead of making faces and throwing stones at\r\npeople, like that poor old crazy man, Timon, he will take steps, fiddle\r\nin hand, and set the tickled world a'dancing. In a word, as the progress\r\nof Christianization mellows those in manner whom it cannot mend in mind,\r\nmuch the same will it prove with the progress of genialization. And so,\r\nthanks to geniality, the misanthrope, reclaimed from his boorish\r\naddress, will take on refinement and softness--to so genial a degree,\r\nindeed, that it may possibly fall out that the misanthrope of the\r\ncoming century will be almost as popular as, I am sincerely sorry to\r\nsay, some philanthropists of the present time would seem not to be, as\r\nwitness my eccentric friend named before.\"\r\n\r\n\"Well,\" cried the other, a little weary, perhaps, of a speculation so\r\nabstract, \"well, however it may be with the century to come, certainly\r\nin the century which is, whatever else one may be, he must be genial or\r\nhe is nothing. So fill up, fill up, and be genial!\"\r\n\r\n\"I am trying my best,\" said the cosmopolitan, still calmly\r\ncompanionable. \"A moment since, we talked of Pizarro, gold, and Peru; no\r\ndoubt, now, you remember that when the Spaniard first entered Atahalpa's\r\ntreasure-chamber, and saw such profusion of plate stacked up, right and\r\nleft, with the wantonness of old barrels in a brewer's yard, the needy\r\nfellow felt a twinge of misgiving, of want of confidence, as to the\r\ngenuineness of an opulence so profuse. He went about rapping the shining\r\nvases with his knuckles. But it was all gold, pure gold, good gold,\r\nsterling gold, which how cheerfully would have been stamped such at\r\nGoldsmiths' Hall. And just so those needy minds, which, through their\r\nown insincerity, having no confidence in mankind, doubt lest the liberal\r\ngeniality of this age be spurious. They are small Pizarros in their\r\nway--by the very princeliness of men's geniality stunned into distrust\r\nof it.\"\r\n\r\n\"Far be such distrust from you and me, my genial friend,\" cried the\r\nother fervently; \"fill up, fill up!\"\r\n\r\n\"Well, this all along seems a division of labor,\" smiled the\r\ncosmopolitan. \"I do about all the drinking, and you do about all--the\r\ngenial. But yours is a nature competent to do that to a large\r\npopulation. And now, my friend,\" with a peculiarly grave air, evidently\r\nforeshadowing something not unimportant, and very likely of close\r\npersonal interest; \"wine, you know, opens the heart, and----\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 8"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJMV9MSRGN5AE81C6QV95","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AK98GN3C9Z0MERSEWGJJQ","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AK98D9T4X3J37TW5997HH","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:59.248Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:13.007Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}