Chapter 2013 The thickness of the crucible (8)

Darwin wrote in "Animals": Aristotle called "man" an animal that can imitate. This tendency to imitate is not only reflected in the behavior of children, but also in all customs in the world.

and in fashion.

Teachers regard this kind of imitation as motivation for learning, such as Remus Lupine putting Boggart in the wardrobe and asking children to chant spells after him in Defense Against the Dark Arts class, or Pomona giving Mander

Demonstrate first when pulling grass to repot.

The werewolf group also has its own way of education. They will demonstrate to new members how to attack humans. This is especially true for "wolves" who have identified themselves as humans for more than ten years because they turned into other species after being bitten.

A painful and ridiculous thing.

Remus chose not to eat human flesh or harm anyone, even if doing so would make him very weak.

While traveling around the UK looking for a job, he would also research what played a key role in his transformation, and then he found a piece of information in the library of Birmingham.

The Moonlight Society had only five core members at the beginning. They included Erasmus Darwin, who was the grandfather of Charles Robert Darwin who later wrote the theory of evolution. He was a doctor, poet, and inventor. He was not at the table because of his obesity.

Cut a semicircle to fit his belly. Next came Matthew Bolton, the owner of Soho and a high-profile factory supervisor at the time. Then came Bolton's worried partner, James Watt, and Joshua...

Wedgwood, he was an ambitious potter. Finally, there was Joseph Priestley, a clergyman who stuttered but wrote fluently, and was also a chemist. He was the first person to isolate the element oxygen.

At first, they were just a group of like-minded friends. At that time, there were already electric performances, but people generally thought that it was a kind of magic or magic. Every time there was a performance, there was always an empty house.

They do interesting experiments together, or talk about some topics that are not suitable for discussion in public. They are like a residential community that tolerates all weirdos and weird things, and no one will lead the argument into a dead end.

After each party, they would get drunk and go home singing (drunk and crazy) under the moonlight, and then they took the name Moonlight Society.

They were not salons. According to Monge's daughter, the old French Academy was more like a literary society, and scientists were not allowed to enter.

Bolton believed that mineralogy was a mature field of the Moonlight Society and a useful source of knowledge in metallurgy, pottery, and gasology.

Georgiana didn't pay attention at first. After all, the name Robert Peel was still very common in Britain. Later she recalled it carefully. If she remembered correctly, there would be a Prime Minister of the "future" Britain also named Robert Peel. He not only

He was the founder of the Victorian era and the founder of Scotland Yard, but that was twenty or thirty years later.

Prior to this, there were no police stations and Sherlock Holmes in the UK. Traditional police work was still handled by security officers, magistrates and patrolmen. However, just as Robert Peel Sr. and William Pitt Jr. feared, security had become

It’s getting worse. And because the word “Police” comes from French, the British people understand the police as a force of repression. In this era, being able to fight is more important than having the brains to solve crimes, not to mention that Britain is not short of nosy people.

And people who like to come up with bad ideas.

In the 18th century, someone discovered a naked boy in the Hameln Forest in Hannover, England. People called him "Wild Child" Peter. There are many legends about wild beasts raising human children. Imitation is not just a human characteristic.

There are also animals. Young wolves will imitate adult wolves in hunting, and baby elephants will imitate adult elephants to drink water with their trunks. The "wild child" Peter cannot speak human language, as if he has been abandoned before learning to speak human language, but he

His hearing and sense of smell are extremely sensitive. He only peels the bark of trees and extracts their sap. He dare not eat fruits given to him by others.

This 12-year-old boy, known as the "Monster", was later captured and sent to King George I. Unlike other beast boys, he would gradually get rid of some of his animal nature after being adopted by humans.

Can say the words "Peter" and "King George" and the word "King George" is accompanied by the coronation bell.

One of the members of the Moonlight Club, Edgeworth studied the "Wild Child" Peter as an educator. While other members of the Moonlight Club were looking for rocks, animal and plant specimens around the world, he was inquiring about the Beast Boy.

News. Bolton once left Birmingham with Erasmus Darwin's son, Erasmus Darwin Jr., to search for mineral specimens.

But the conditions for forming "beast children" are very harsh. They must have human parents who have the heart to abandon them, and beasts that cannot bear to eat or harm them and are willing to raise them. As forests are being cut down, it has become difficult to find their children in the UK.

There are traces of "Beast Boys". Edgeworth hopes to find "Beast Boys" in other backward countries, and scholars in other countries also want "Beast Boys". Even if a reward is issued, he has never encountered one in his life, becoming

to address the shortcomings in his book "Human Observation".

Compared with other members, Edgeworth did not receive much attention. After all, the children were working as child labor in factories, and there was no need to open schools. Rich people would hire tutors for primary education to prepare for secondary and higher education in the future.

Education lays a good foundation. For example, in the story of "Jane Eyre", the female teacher fell in love with her student's father.

Jane Eyre was an orphan, but she was born in a poor pastor's family. She received education from her father in her early days. Later, she was sent to an orphanage. Although she suffered mental and physical abuse, being literate changed her.

A chance of fate, otherwise she would have ended up working in a spinning mill like Fantine in "Les Misérables".

One evening, Jane Eyre went out for a walk and met the male owner who had just returned from abroad. This was the first time they met. Later, she found that he was a melancholy and moody person. The whole house was gloomy and empty, and sometimes she could hear...

A creepy laugh.

One day Jane Eyre was awakened by a strange smile and found that there was a fire in Rochester's room. Jane Eyre woke him up and helped him put out the fire.

Later, she not only extinguished the physical fire, but also extinguished the love fire in the heart of this man who had been a widower for fifteen years. Rochester did have a wife, but she was crazy. Mrs. Rochester still occupied the legal status of his wife.

, Jane Eyre committed bigamy by marrying him, so as written in all the stories, Jane Eyre left Thornfield Manor on a windy and rainy night. She slept rough and begged along the way, and was finally taken in by a priest.

If Georgiana is a decent woman, she should leave, even if she begs on the street like Jane Eyre, instead of occupying the position that should be occupied by Josephine in the name of world peace.

This trip was supposed to restore the relationship between Josephine and Bonaparte, but women understand women's thoughts best. When they see that the position of the hostess has been vacated, even if the male host is not a wealthy bachelor, some people still want to

To occupy that position.

Alexander Fordyce was often mentioned in the Moonlight Society's correspondence. He was a Scottish banker who rose to prominence after the Treaty of Paris. At that time, he saw that American independence would succeed, so he bought a large amount of stocks through speculation.

Indian stocks, he married the daughter of a Scottish earl, and was given a seat in the House of Commons at Roehampton.

He liked to bluff. Later, when he went bankrupt, he returned home happily and said to everyone he met, "Chicken's head, raven's paw, I will succeed or else, I...I...succeeded, bring champagne"

, let’s go to Burgundy, I, Alexander, am a man!”

No one understood what he was saying, but instead of being scolded, Fordyce won widespread sympathy, yet his bankruptcy led to the collapse of almost all private banks in Scotland.

The book Remus was reading didn't contain details about what happened, he just recounted what was in the book.

Speculation requires time dividend, and if you waste time on reading, you will lose this dividend, so for speculators, it does not matter how much you read...

"What are you thinking? So serious?"

Her little French lover said with a playful smile.

Georgiana looked at the sea outside the window. This damn room with a blocked chimney was very cold, but the two of them did something while listening to the sound of the waves. Not only did they not feel cold, the sea under the moonlight brought a different kind of romance, and

The sky at this time had begun to turn blue.

She remembered that day at the Louvre, she heard Josephine playing Moonlight, but could Josephine play the piano?

You shouldn't feel proud. Today he betrayed his original wife. One day he will betray you like this. How can you do this to the person who took care of you when you were sick?

"In Japanese legend, there is a strange bird called a bird that takes away human children, but it does not eat the children, but raises them." She looked into his eyes and said, "Do you believe the legend?

? Leon."

"Not all legends are true." He said easily, "Do you believe that I will eat children?"

"You may not be sure, but other people are different. Do you think the children raised by Gu Huo Bird are more like humans or birds?"

He didn't speak.

"Can they imitate the flight of birds?" she asked again.

"They don't have the wings of Icarus and will fall to death if they try to fly."

"I think this is why the guhuo bird always carries other people's children. It raises human children without telling them that they cannot fly. And when human children blindly imitate the guhuo bird and fall to death, not only does it not

It repented and mourned, but went to hold the next child, so it has another name, ghost bird." She said softly, "But when it raises the abandoned child, people call it the summer harvest bird. Do you think it is a good bird?

birds?"

He didn't answer her question, lowered his head and kissed her.

In fact, she still has a question: Do you believe there is real magic?

But it's a pity that she can't speak at the moment, and then she doesn't have enough rational thinking about how to speak.

In fact, living by the sea, listening to the sound of waves and seagulls, isn't that bad. She doesn't resist going to Elba, but is he willing to give up his power?

Even magic can't do anything about this. Maybe by then, it's time to wake up from her spring dream.
Chapter completed!