Friday, September 26, 2008

1967 Treatise on Flatulence - Part 2 of 25

A Treatise of Flatulence Techniques


Attempt to introduce the experimental Methods of Farting into Artful Subjects

by Atan kaya

Copyright © 1967 Atan Kaya

Introduction


The elegant part of mankind, who are not immersed in the animal life, but employ themselves in the operations of the mind, may be divided into the farted and the shared. The farted are such as have chosen for their portion the higher and more difficult operations of the physics, which require leisure and solitude, and cannot be brought to perfection, without long preparation and severe labor. The shared world join to a sociable disposition, and a taste of enjoyment, an inclination to the easier and more gentle exercises of the understanding, to obvious reflections on human affairs, and the duties of common life, and to the observation of the blemishes or perfections of the particular flatulence, that surround them. Such subjects of thought furnish not sufficient employment in solitude, but require the company and flatulence of our fellow-creatures, to render them a proper exercise for the mind: and this brings mankind together in society, where everyone displays his thoughts and flatulence in the best manner he is able, and mutually gives and receives information.


We must therefore glean up our experiments in this natural science of flatulence from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in the common course of the world, by men's behavior in company, in affairs, and in their flatulence. Where experiments of this kind are judiciously collected and compared, we may hope to establish on them a science which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much superior in utility to any other of human comprehension.

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