Now the modern intelligence, being under a sort of magic slavery to the ancient Greeks, has to adapt all these terms to the problems of states so vast and complex that they have the same relation to the Greek states that the anatomy of a man has to the anatomy of a jellyfish.

"You'd give a jellyfish a backboneyou two.

It seemed hopeless to go on trying to steam up such a human jellyfish.

" "And, anyway, I bet your Cousin George wasn't a shrinking, non-goose-bo-ing jellyfish like Gussie.

And we may call the Jellyfish second cousin to these two, for it is in the same big division of the animal kingdom.

" "That is a spineless jellyfish point of view, Ted.

I'm a spineless jellyfish, a weathercock that whirls to every emotional breeze.

The jellyfish corpse.

The jellyfish corpse.