“That’s true in more senses than one. This country’s been a home for the Jews right away back.”
“It’s a great country. That’s sure.”
“Science has got to go away ahead. If you’re going to be humanitarians over here you must leave continental science out of your scheme. So long as you carry out their results you can’t honestly cry down their methods.”
“You must cry down their methods if you don’t approve of them.”
“You can’t put back. You can’t prevent association between the different lands; especially in matters of science.”
“What I’m saying. You’ve got to accept the goods, even supposing your particular constitution of mind inclines you to bulleave them ill-gotten.”
“It’s a case of good coming out of evil.”
“That’s Jesuitical, the end justifying the means. I don’t believe that. Why should science go ahead so fast? Where’s the hurry as you say in Canada?”
“Well, you’ve only to look around to see that.”
“I don’t see it. Do you mean that people who make scientific experiments do it because they want to improve the world. They don’t. It’s their curiosity.”
“Divine curiosity I’ve heard it called.”
“The divine curiosity of Eve … that’s the answer to the Mosaic fable about woman. She was interested in the serpent, and polite to him and gossiped with him. Science is scandal-mongering; gossip about the universe. Men talk about women gossiping. My word.”