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a moment * He then again took them up with his trunk , set them ashore , and immediately vanished with his boat . ¦?* * Now we may talk , ' said Morabec . Morabec was prudent , and his pupil docile . Presumptuous and rash men have not
always employed a tremendous power with so much circumspection . These daemons have ever proved dangerous to deal withal . Their power is mighty , and makes the man mighty who learns to master it . But
if he learn his lesson imperfectly , if through ignorance or carelessness he omit some essential ceremony , his power is lost , and a submissive slave becomes a terrible and
destructive enemy . To different genii different forms must be used . In one ease , as of the monstrous boatman , silence must be strictly observed ; in another the name of God must
not be uttered , —a precaution neglected which cost Prince Agib a dangerous shipwreck ; in another a ring must be carefully preserved ; and in a fourth , the genius must be confined close , like the
fisherman ' s misty friend , who would have eaten him , being let loose . r But there is that pride in man , that each will hold himself invulnerable to what has
destroyed his brother ; and unmindful of these ancient lessons jn the policy of magic , pur , modern magicians have grow * confident in their own safety , and so insolent ,
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that they scourge , overtask , and leave the watch over their familiars , without regard to the horrible fate of those who lose the mastery . Morabec would have been somewhat surprised at the recklessness with which the passengers in our modern enchanted boats behave , leaving their daemon , Steam , unwatehed , uncontrolled , and often , too , after he has been goaded and inflamed , with coals heaped upon coals , into so great a fury , that once burst loose , he will destroy
everything that falls in his way . They would not have minded how long a sentence they blurted in the solemn face of the old boatman , for all his proboscis and tiger jacket . They employ powers all but superhuman , powers far exceeding the most gigantic force
ever given to human muscles , and have no more respect for them than for the puniest tools , but often neglect to maintain the only control they possess . They mount a fiery dragon , and , drunk with selfsufficiency , they fling away the bridle ; they break the spell , and are hurled , tortured and mangled , to
destruction . Did the mischief stop with those in whom the fault lies , the harm would not be so great as it is . But the directors of our daemon-boats are never alone , and their recklessness
is punished on innocent blood . The Zeyn Alasnams are destroyed for the b u bWin ^ of MorabecB , Such calamities
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m 4 Steamrhoat Accidents and their Prevention
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/49/
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