Once you've taken it, it's poison unless you go on with it.

'So it is,' said Bensington.
And in short he proposes the formation of a National Society for the Preservation of the Proper Proportions of Things.

Odd?
Eh?
People are hanging on to the idea like anything." "But what do they propose to do ?" Winkles shrugged his shoulders and threw out his hands.

"Form a Society," he said, "and fuss.

They want to make it illegal to manufacture this Herakleophorbia--or at any rate to circulate the knowledge of it.