B954 <=> B956 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 955]

“Among the various primary and secondary causes, the totality of which is gradually bringing about the disharmonization of this fundamental function in the common presences of your contemporary favorites breeding on that continent of North America, there is still another exceedingly peculiar cause which, although ‘blatantly obvious’ among them, nevertheless, owing to their ‘chicken reflections,’ flourishes with an impulse of egoistic satisfaction, under as it were a ‘cap of invisibility.’

“This peculiar cause arose and also began slowly and quietly, but infallibly disharmonizing this function in them, thanks simply to the fact that in the strange presences of the beings of this new large group, a ‘ruling passion’ prevails, to be as often as possible on the continent of Europe.