We hear that you have been on the point of proving most unpleasant things with regard to our origin." "Oh! there is no doubt about that," the Professor observed.

"Where we came from and where we are going to are questions which no longer afford room for the slightest doubt to the really scientific mind.

What sometimes does elude us is the nature of our tendencies while we are here on earth." "Mine, I fancy, are obvious enough," Lord Ashleigh interposed.
"Superficially, I grant it," his brother acknowledged.

"As a matter of scientific fact, I recognize the probability of your actually being a person utterly different from what you appear.

Man becomes what he is according to the circumstances by which he is assailed.