Categoria: BTG XXXI
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B549
B548 B550 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 549] “’After finishing the course, this young man then receives the title of analytic-chemist. Sometimes it happens that before receiving a responsible post, the young man happens to get “practice” consisting usually in this, that he helps the local chemist, also a former mama’s darling, to…
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B541
B540 B542 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 541] “It must without fail be noticed that in former times also on your planet such professionals as are now called there physicians were almost the same and did almost the same as our Zirlikners among us; but gradually with the flow of time, the responsible…
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B542
B541 B543 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 542] “Among the number of such means for getting rid of the said illnesses, there are chiefly various remedies existing under the name of ‘medicines.’ “Well, when one of the contemporary beings becomes a responsible professional, and when other beings needing his help apply to him…
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B543
B542 B544 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 543] “But if the house to which such a terrestrial ‘Zirlikner’ is called for help to a needy being smells of what are called ‘canceled-German-marks,’ then his inner being-wish to help the person in need also increases, but only in this respect, that he may write…
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B544
B543 B545 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 544] “And later, when they have already become responsible beings having this profession and receive the official title of physician and when they are called upon to help the beings who need it, then their whole help consists in this that they make a being-effort of…
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B545
B544 B546 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 545] “According to the notions there, this pharmacist was already an old being and his character was very kind, and even, so to say, obliging. “He belonged to what is called there the ‘Jewish faith.’ “It is necessary to tell you here, that there, on almost…
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B546
B545 B547 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 546] “’This Dover’s powder is, I don’t know why, a very popular remedy among us in Russia, and it is used by almost all the peoples of our enormous empire. “’Many hundreds of thousands of packets of powder are used here daily all over the country…
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B547
B546 B548 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 547] “’But the analysis?’ I asked him. “’What’s analysis?’ he replied sarcastically, though also with a kind smile. ‘A thorough analysis of a single powder would cost so much that, with this money, you could buy not only half a hundredweight of this powder, but possibly…
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B548
B547 B549 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 548] “And now listen to what that kind pharmacist there said to me further. “He said, ‘This young man, this mama’s darling, with the pimpled face, studies at a certain university to become a specialist analytic-chemist, but there at the university he is bound to study…
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B540
B539 B541 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 540] “It was for this reason, my boy, that I decided while existing among these favorites of yours this time, to choose, from among the professions existing there, that one which gives the possibility at times of automatically establishing among them those relations by which they…
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B550
B549 B551 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 550] “’The form thus written is dispatched to him who sent the Dover’s powder, and the famous analytic-chemist himself is quite at peace as no one knows that he has made no analysis at all, nor could anyone check him, first because he is the only…
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B528
B527 B529 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 528] “As I had nothing particular to do at this time on the planet Mars, I decided to wind up without delay my current affairs and personally to descend to your planet, and there, on the spot, at any cost, to elucidate this question which had…
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B529
B528 B530 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 529] “While we were descending on to the surface of this planet of yours, the process of reciprocal destruction which had been proceeding in Afghanistan finished; but all the same, I remained to exist near this Afghanistan, as it was just on that part of the…
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B530
B529 B531 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 530] “Just at the beginning of this sixth personal sojourn of mine I soon categorically made clear, thanks to my experimental investigations, that most of the causes of the strangeness of their psyche are found not in that usual consciousness of theirs, in which alone they…
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B531
B530 B532 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 531] “In the beginning I devoted all the time I had free from observations and investigations concerning the chief aim which I had set myself for this time, to the study of languages there, in order to have greater possibilities of better establishing everywhere corresponding relations…
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B532
B531 B533 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 532] “Even I, who had then learned perfectly eighteen of their different languages, found myself during my travels under conditions at times where I had not even the possibility of getting fodder for my horse, in spite of the fact that my pockets were full of…
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B533
B532 B534 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 533] “The fundamental purpose of these representatives of the contemporary ‘important’ communities who assembled together was to select one of the languages already existing there and to make it common for the whole planet. “However, as usual, nothing resulted either from this really sensible intention of…
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B526
B525 B527 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 526] “Concerning each and every of their ways and means, the purpose of which was the destruction of each other’s existence, I had already had before this a definite logical confrontation which explained to me just what are the accidentally arisen surrounding factors that bring forth…
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B552
B551 B553 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 552] “Well, enough of that. . . “If you should really have to exist among these favorites of yours, you will at least know from this last talk of mine that although the physicians there write a dozen wiseacring names in their prescriptions, yet in these…
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B553
B552 B554 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 553] “One of these three medical means which does sometimes nevertheless produce a useful reaction is that substance, or, more strictly speaking, those active elements entering into it, which the beings of Maralpleicie learned how to obtain from the plant poppy and which they were the…