B1089 <=> B1091 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1090]

“’The kazi are the same everywhere, only their names are different. In Persia they are called Persian, in Turkey, Turkish.

“’And that is just as it is everywhere on Earth; donkeys are alike, they are only differently called.

“’For instance, the species of donkey breeding in the Caucasus is called “Karabaghian”; and precisely the same kind of donkey breeding in Turkestan is called “Khorassanian.”’

“And this wise sentence of his was thereafter always imprinted in my brain; and during my existence on your planet I always remembered it when I had any comparison to make.

“May his name be praised forever on that planet where he arose and was formed!

“And so, my boy!

“I repeat once more! If for some reason or other you have to be on their planet, bear always in mind that the weakness about which I have told you is most strongly developed in the most ordinary intelligentsics there and in those who ordinarily spring from them and belong to one or another of the enumerated castes with the names ending in ‘crat.’

“Well, now, my boy, after this digression which I have made for your practical benefit, let us return again to the serious question touched upon; I shall begin with the history promised you about how the society of terrestrial beings which had as its motto ‘The-Earth-Is-Equally-Free-for-All’ arose and fell, because the information about this will give you the possibility to understand well just about that first and chief cause why there on your planet this terrible process of periodic reciprocal destruction by these unfortunate three-brained beings of our Great Megalocosmos must already almost inevitably proceed.

“And likewise you will learn how the, so to say, local Nature – when something unforeseen hinders its correct functionings for the purposes of the common-cosmic Trogoautoegocrat – adapts itself so that its results should correspondingly blend with the harmony of this most great cosmic law.