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When any natural object or event is presented , it is impossible for us , by any sagacity or penetration , to discover , or even conjecture , without experience , what event will result from it , or to carry our foresight beyond that object which is immediately present to the memory and senses . Of these , the two most immediately pertinent to the anthropology collection in terms of retrieval are the materials and objects facets , and they are the only two to be fully realized at this point . of cut faces of wood , of hair cells , etc ., all be-come immediately comprehensible without the integration required when determining plant structure from successive paraffin sections . Without the influence of custom , we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses . Each Magos must decide , based on his experience as well as on the knowledge of his assistants , what balance to use between English , which is immediately comprehensible , and ancient words imbued with power through ancient magical practice . And in a word , such a person , without more experience , could never employ his conjecture or reasoning concerning any matter of fact , or be assured of anything beyond what was immediately present to his memory and senses . The unapologetic pro-Western use of American power-in effect , having the U.S. play realpolitik on terms immediately comprehensible to Middle Easterners-tempts fate by always threatening to awaken the Arab street . And so , when Mister Haggin , or God , or call it what one will with the limitations of language , picked Jerry up with imperative abruptness , tucked him under his arm , and stepped into the whaleboat , whose black crew immediately bent to the oars , Jerry was instantly and nervously aware that the unusual had begun to happen .