However, it is not the business of impartial history to maintain a given thesis; it follows whither the facts lead it.

I wish simply to question you upon the power of logic attributed to you.

Do you or do you not enjoy gleams of reason?
Have you within you the humble germ of human thought?
That is the problem before us.
To solve it we will not rely upon the accidents which good fortune may now and again procure for us.

We must employ the breeding-cage, which will permit of assiduous visits, continued inquiry and a variety of artifices.

But how populate the cage?
The land of the olive-tree is not rich in Necrophori.