B1088 <=> B1090 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1089]

“I must tell you that your favorites there for some reason or other delight in sometimes arranging what are called ‘puppet shows.’

“For some reason or other it also pleases them that these same zevrocrats or aristocrats should also take part in these ‘puppet plays’ of theirs, and accordingly they drag them also into these ‘puppet shows.’

“As these beings there are in themselves already quite vacuous and consequently feeble, it becomes necessary during these ‘puppet shows’ for other beings of the given community to support them.

“And simply from the method of their supporting, that is to say, by which arm they are supported, the difference in name was obtained; in the communities, namely, where ‘monarchic state organization’ exists, it has already long ago been the custom to support them with the right arm, and hence in these communities such types are called aristocrats.

“And in the communities in which a ‘republican state organization’ exists they are supported with the left arm, and hence they are called zevrocrats.

“Concerning in general a similar difference in the names there of terrestrial beings, another remarkable saying of our wise Mullah Nassr Eddin comes to my mind which he himself once told me personally.

“Once we spoke about the difference in the legal proceedings and in the sentences passed between the Turkish and Persian ‘kazi,’ that is magistrates; and concerning the equality of their justice, he then said:

“’Ekh! My dear friend!

“’Is there such a thing anywhere on Earth as a wise legal examination of men’s guilt?