Sitting quiet after eating is akin to sitting still during divine
service so as not to disturb the congregation. We are catechising
and converting our proselytes, and there should be no row. As we get
older we must digest more quietly still, our appetite is less, our
gastric juices are no longer so eloquent, they have lost that cogent
fluency which carried away all that came in contact with it. They
have become sluggish and unconciliatory. This is what happens to any
man when he suffers from an attack of indigestion.
Sea-Sickness
Or, indeed, any other sickness is the inarticulate expression of the
pain we feel on seeing a proselyte escape us just as we were on the
point of converting it.
Indigestion
This, as I have said above, may be due to the naughtiness of the
stiff-necked things that we have eaten, or to the poverty of our own
arguments; but it may also arise from an attempt on the part of the
stomach to be too damned clever, and to depart from precedent
inconsiderately. The healthy stomach is nothing if not conservative.
Few radicals have good digestions.
Assimilation and Persecution
We cannot get rid of persecution; if we feel at all we must persecute
something; the mere acts of feeding and growing are acts of
persecution. Our aim should be to persecute nothing but such things
as are absolutely incapable of resisting us.
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