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misunderstandings. The Russian bugs rooms and spies by ear,
finding this quite natural. He is outraged by our visual spying,
however, finding this quite unnatural.
The principle that during the stages of their development
all things appear under forms opposite to those that they
finally present is an ancient doctrine. Interest in the power of
things to reverse themselves by evolution is evident in a great
diversity of observations, sage and jocular. Alexander Pope
wrote
Vice is a monster of such frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with its face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.