Get me ?" "Yes, I get you!" I exclaimed testily enough.

"But to use your own phrase, kindly can the repeated references to superstition." "Why should I ?" He was almost wrathful.

"You scientific people build up whole philosophies on the basis of things you never saw, and you scoff at people who believe in other things that you think _they_ never saw and that don't come under what you label scientific.

You talk about paradoxes--why, your scientist, who thinks he is the most skeptical, the most materialistic aggregation of atoms ever gathered at the exact mathematical centre of Missouri, has more blind faith than a dervish, and more credulity, more superstition, than a cross-eyed smoke beating it past a country graveyard in the dark of the moon!" "Larry!" I cried, dazed.
"Olaf's no better," he said.

"But I can make allowances for him.
He's a sailor.