an article by its most popular columnist finished off the monster for good, spurning it in the style of Hippolytus repulsing the amorous advances of his stepmother Phaedra, and giving the creature its quietus amid a universal burst of laughter. Wit had defeated science.
*German: “Bulletin.” Ed.
During the first months of the year 1867, the question seemed to be buried, and it didn’t seem due for resurrection, when new
an article by its most popular columnist finished off the monster for good, spurning it in the style of Hippolytus repulsing the amorous advances of his stepmother Phaedra, and giving the creature its quietus amid a universal burst of laughter. Wit had defeated science.
*German: “Bulletin.” Ed.
During the first months of the year 1867, the question seemed to be buried, and it didn’t seem due for resurrection, when new
