"And Aristotle was a metaphysician." Dr.Ballingford glanced around the table and was rewarded by nods and smiles of approval.
"Your illustration is most unfortunate," Ernest replied.

"You refer to a very dark period in human history.

In fact, we call that period the Dark Ages.

A period wherein science was raped by the metaphysicians, wherein physics became a search for the Philosopher's Stone, wherein chemistry became alchemy, and astronomy became astrology.

Sorry the domination of Aristotle's thought!" Dr.Ballingford looked pained, then he brightened up and said: "Granted this horrible picture you have drawn, yet you must confess that metaphysics was inherently potent in so far as it drew humanity out of this dark period and on into the illumination of the succeeding centuries." "Metaphysics had nothing to do with it," Ernest retorted.
"What ?" Dr.Hammerfield cried.