>>26878692With a note on speed in particular, it may be said that bustle and hurry to nowhere, to nothing, was arrested neither by Greninja nor Ash. On the contrary, frantic, hectic, and sublimely meaningless haste became the order of the battle. Ash nor Greninja never halted to think or to plan; they only just followed the shortest road to the main chance of victory. Prophetic views, views concerning the consequences of the charge and the future of the battle, began to yield before the immediate and extant concern about the quickest trick, the most opportune ruse, wherewith Greninja could outwit or oust its rival. As the season progressed, Greninja’s motion became more rapid; the very increase of motion began to be looked upon as a “superior means of battle and of overwhelming the opponent” and to deny this was commensurate to confessing oneself as indolent or imprudent.
Every one today, as reflection of this depraved notion, supposes that what they are doing is always and essentially “doing more” because they can move through common and meagre tasks at a more rapid pace than through sober meditation and intellectual connections and ordering of these plans. Whereas it would be far closer the truth to say that we accomplish less and with less success, because our nervous energy and vitality are being critically crippled by the rush and whirl of ceaseless uninstinctual motion.
