Capitolo 49
probably aware that word and the conception are similar because of the
the imposing intelligence and enormous generalising motorize of Herbert Spencer.
SEVERELY INCOG.
Among the bluffs of stone on the Australian coast, an explorer's dredge
often door above to the surface of the entangled tresses of reddish sea alga,
what, when it put for once in a bucket of water, you slowly start to
develop as if endowed with animal life, and finally to swim
around with a trembling and kind motion in an inquiring and mute way from side
to side some bucket that contains them. Looked from next to with a
careful eye, the touching and complex mass is gradually clarified in
two parts: one a red sea alga with dripping and long leafy branches; the other, a
deformed pipe-fish oddly and ruffled, precisely imitating the
is polished up by the weeds in form and colour. When remote from the water, this strange
pipe-fish tries rather than in general contour you resemble to the notorious one
hippocampus or sea-horse of the aquariums which dried rests in a
mummified state, forms a position wonders in many small national museums.
But the Australian kind, instead of only mimicking the rider on a
game of the chess-axle, glances it rather likes a hippocampus in the most advanced stage
of the insanity, with his/her tail and fins and the pendants of his/her backbone
flattened out in thin and long dripping filaments, suddenly
indistinguishable in color and plasma from the circle of fucus that the
creature grabs on for support with his/her prehensile tail. Only an ill-mannered and
raw and shapeless draught of a head, vaguely equine in contour, and
inconspicuouslies provided a lot with a non fluorescent face and a pair of
unnoticeable looks, to all it suggests to the its most microscopic observer
animal nature. Taken as a whole, anybody for first you/he/she could sight distinguishes
it in some way from the undulant weed among which flourishing.
Clearly, this Australian and curious cousin of the sea-horses of Mediterranean
you/he/she has acquired so marvellous a similarity to some fucus in order to