Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff

unless there had been introduced into his organism the toxic products I havenamed, so maleficent for people." 'Well, my dear Doctor, I lived until my twentieth year in Persia,respecting these morals and traditions, like every ordinary normal Persian'At twenty, I happened to inherit some shares which made me a partnerin a certain large firm which exported Persian dried fruit to various Europeancommunities." 'Thanks to my position in this firm, and various circumstances notdependent on me, I became its chief representative in the countries of thecontinent of Europe to which this fruit was exported.'First I went to Russia, then to Germany, Italy, and other Europeancountries, ending up here in France, where I have already spent seven years'In the life of none of these foreign countries is there such a sharpdistinction between these two types of women, the "woman-mother" and the"woman-prostitute," as I saw and felt during my entire youth in my nativecountry.'Everywhere in these countries the attitude toward women is purelymental, that is, only imaginary, not organic.'Here for instance, however unfaithful his wife may be, a husband willnever know it unless he sees it or hears of it.'But among us in Persia, without having seen anything or heard anygossip, a husband can tell instinctively whether his wife is unfaithful, and thesame thing applies to the woman—she can always sense the slightestinfidelity on the part of her husband.'Several scientists from the continent of Europe have recently madesome very serious investigations in our country about this particularinstinctive sensation.'As I happened to learn, they came to the conclusion that generallywhere the customs of "polyandry" or "po-