{"id":"01KG8AK98GN3C9Z0MERSEWGJJQ","cid":"bafkreigymkvcr64f3b4npmpqfxp7bu33ynsp5isnt7ahnbbob2ai35etta","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":7882,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.725Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 7","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":7809,"text":"the word which among men signifies the highest pitch of geniality,\r\nimplies, as indispensable auxiliary, the cheery benediction of the\r\nbottle. Yes, Frank, to live together in the finest sense, we must drink\r\ntogether. And so, what wonder that he who loves not wine, that sober\r\nwretch has a lean heart--a heart like a wrung-out old bluing-bag, and\r\nloves not his kind? Out upon him, to the rag-house with him, hang\r\nhim--the ungenial soul!\"\r\n\r\n\"Oh, now, now, can't you be convivial without being censorious? I like\r\neasy, unexcited conviviality. For the sober man, really, though for my\r\npart I naturally love a cheerful glass, I will not prescribe my nature\r\nas the law to other natures. So don't abuse the sober man. Conviviality\r\nis one good thing, and sobriety is another good thing. So don't be\r\none-sided.\"\r\n\r\n\"Well, if I am one-sided, it is the wine. Indeed, indeed, I have\r\nindulged too genially. My excitement upon slight provocation shows it.\r\nBut yours is a stronger head; drink you. By the way, talking of\r\ngeniality, it is much on the increase in these days, ain't it?\"\r\n\r\n\"It is, and I hail the fact. Nothing better attests the advance of the\r\nhumanitarian spirit. In former and less humanitarian ages--the ages of\r\namphitheatres and gladiators--geniality was mostly confined to the\r\nfireside and table. But in our age--the age of joint-stock companies and\r\nfree-and-easies--it is with this precious quality as with precious gold\r\nin old Peru, which Pizarro found making up the scullion's sauce-pot as\r\nthe Inca's crown. Yes, we golden boys, the moderns, have geniality\r\neverywhere--a bounty broadcast like noonlight.\"\r\n\r\n\"True, true; my sentiments again. Geniality has invaded each department\r\nand profession. We have genial senators, genial authors, genial\r\nlecturers, genial doctors, genial clergymen, genial surgeons, and the\r\nnext thing we shall have genial hangmen.\"\r\n\r\n\"As to the last-named sort of person,\" said the cosmopolitan, \"I trust\r\nthat the advancing spirit of geniality will at last enable us to\r\ndispense with him. No murderers--no hangmen. And surely, when the whole\r\nworld shall have been genialized, it will be as out of place to talk of\r\nmurderers, as in a Christianized world to talk of sinners.\"\r\n\r\n\"To pursue the thought,\" said the other, \"every blessing is attended\r\nwith some evil, and----\"\r\n\r\n\"Stay,\" said the cosmopolitan, \"that may be better let pass for a loose\r\nsaying, than for hopeful doctrine.\"\r\n\r\n\"Well, assuming the saying's truth, it would apply to the future\r\nsupremacy of the genial spirit, since then it will fare with the hangman\r\nas it did with the weaver when the spinning-jenny whizzed into the\r\nascendant. Thrown out of employment, what could Jack Ketch turn his hand\r\nto? Butchering?\"\r\n\r\n\"That he could turn his hand to it seems probable; but that, under the\r\ncircumstances, it would be appropriate, might in some minds admit of a\r\nquestion. For one, I am inclined to think--and I trust it will not be\r\nheld fastidiousness--that it would hardly be suitable to the dignity of\r\nour nature, that an individual, once employed in attending the last\r\nhours of human unfortunates, should, that office being extinct, transfer\r\nhimself to the business of attending the last hours of unfortunate\r\ncattle. I would suggest that the individual turn valet--a vocation to\r\nwhich he would, perhaps, appear not wholly inadapted by his familiar\r\ndexterity about the person. In particular, for giving a finishing tie to\r\na gentleman's cravat, I know few who would, in all likelihood, be, from\r\nprevious 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","title":"Chunk 7"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJMV9MSRGN5AE81C6QV95","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AK98KE9V6X8JME47NRHFT","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AK98GBY7PZJNJJEBDPY1B","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:59.248Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:12.999Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}