People simply regarded the Newts as something commonplace, like counting machines or other gadgets; no longer did they see in them something mysterious that had emerged from unknown depths, God knows why, and for what. Besides, people never regard what serves them and what is good for them as in any way mysterious, but only what does them harm or threatens them; and because the Newts as it appeared were creatures highly useful in many diverse ways, they were simply accepted as something that belongs as a matter of course to the national and current order of things.
