. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. A HARD ROW. 357. penns conference with the natives. PYTHAGOREAN FANCIES. Of all creeds—after the Christian—I incline most to thePythagorean. I like the notion of inhabiting the body ofa bird. It is the next thing to being a cherub—at least,according to the popular image of a boys head and wings;a fancy that savours strangely of the Pythagorean. 358 PYTHAGOREAN FANCIES. I think nobly of the soul, with Malvolio, but not someanly, as he does by implication, of a bird-body. Whatdisparagement would it seem to shuffle off a crippled,palsied, languid, bed-ri
. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. A HARD ROW. 357. penns conference with the natives. PYTHAGOREAN FANCIES. Of all creeds—after the Christian—I incline most to thePythagorean. I like the notion of inhabiting the body ofa bird. It is the next thing to being a cherub—at least,according to the popular image of a boys head and wings;a fancy that savours strangely of the Pythagorean. 358 PYTHAGOREAN FANCIES. I think nobly of the soul, with Malvolio, but not someanly, as he does by implication, of a bird-body. Whatdisparagement would it seem to shuffle off a crippled,palsied, languid, bed-ridden carcase, and find yourselffloating above the world—in a flood of sun-shine—underthe feathers of a Royal Eagle of the Andes ? For a beast-body I have less relish—and yet how manymen are there who seem predestined to such an occupancy,being in this life even more than semi-brutal! How manyhuman faces that at least countenance, if they do not con-firm, this part of the Brahminical Doctrine. What apes,foxes, pigs, curs, and cats, walk our met
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