{"id":"01KG8AKDA4SPS0E35PWDMNCNK6","cid":"bafkreibnutol2aoglvlbvit7b6wgcom4c7u37v35adty5da7skag4vsijy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5660,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.722Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 8","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":5593,"text":"the brass-plate, \"in the perspective of his developments, I mean. At\r\nfirst the man-child has no teeth, but about the sixth month--am I right,\r\nsir?\"\r\n\r\n\"Don't know anything about it.\"\r\n\r\n\"To proceed then: though at first deficient in teeth, about the sixth\r\nmonth the man-child begins to put forth in that particular. And sweet\r\nthose tender little puttings-forth are.\"\r\n\r\n\"Very, but blown out of his mouth directly, worthless enough.\"\r\n\r\n\"Admitted. And, therefore, we say to our patrons returning with a boy\r\nalleged not only to be deficient in goodness, but redundant in ill: 'The\r\nlad, madam or sir, evinces very corrupt qualities, does he? No end to\r\nthem.' 'But, have confidence, there will be; for pray, madam, in this\r\nlad's early childhood, were not those frail first teeth, then his,\r\nfollowed by his present sound, even, beautiful and permanent set. And\r\nthe more objectionable those first teeth became, was not that, madam, we\r\nrespectfully submit, so much the more reason to look for their speedy\r\nsubstitution by the present sound, even, beautiful and permanent ones.'\r\n'True, true, can't deny that.' 'Then, madam, take him back, we\r\nrespectfully beg, and wait till, in the now swift course of nature,\r\ndropping those transient moral blemishes you complain of, he\r\nreplacingly buds forth in the sound, even, beautiful and permanent\r\nvirtues.'\"\r\n\r\n\"Very philosophical again,\" was the contemptuous reply--the outward\r\ncontempt, perhaps, proportioned to the inward misgiving. \"Vastly\r\nphilosophical, indeed, but tell me--to continue your analogy--since the\r\nsecond teeth followed--in fact, came from--the first, is there no chance\r\nthe blemish may be transmitted?\"\r\n\r\n\"Not at all.\" Abating in humility as he gained in the argument. \"The\r\nsecond teeth follow, but do not come from, the first; successors, not\r\nsons. The first teeth are not like the germ blossom of the apple, at\r\nonce the father of, and incorporated into, the growth it foreruns; but\r\nthey are thrust from their place by the independent undergrowth of the\r\nsucceeding set--an illustration, by the way, which shows more for me\r\nthan I meant, though not more than I wish.\"\r\n\r\n\"What does it show?\" Surly-looking as a thundercloud with the inkept\r\nunrest of unacknowledged conviction.\r\n\r\n\"It shows this, respected sir, that in the case of any boy, especially\r\nan ill one, to apply unconditionally the saying, that the 'child is\r\nfather of the man', is, besides implying an uncharitable aspersion of\r\nthe race, affirming a thing very wide of----\"\r\n\r\n\"--Your analogy,\" like a snapping turtle.\r\n\r\n\"Yes, respected sir.\"\r\n\r\n\"But is analogy argument? You are a punster.\"\r\n\r\n\"Punster, respected sir?\" with a look of being aggrieved.\r\n\r\n\"Yes, you pun with ideas as another man may with words.\"\r\n\r\n\"Oh well, sir, whoever talks in that strain, whoever has no confidence\r\nin human reason, whoever despises human reason, in vain to reason with\r\nhim. Still, respected sir,\" altering his air, \"permit me to hint that,\r\nhad not the force of analogy moved you somewhat, you would hardly have\r\noffered to contemn it.\"\r\n\r\n\"Talk away,\" disdainfully; \"but pray tell me what has that last analogy\r\nof yours to do with your intelligence office business?\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 8"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJM4RS4GSX8JEXTB47AGF","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKDA4SAR321AWFRKJZCNV","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AKDA4X0EVW621YTM13G3T","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:03.396Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:10.310Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}