"I found that there was a special opening in the service for those whose fears for humanity were concerned rather with the aberrations of the scientific intellect than with the normal and excusable, though excessive, outbreaks of the human will.

I trust I make myself clear." "If you mean that you make your opinion clear," said Syme, "I suppose you do.

But as for making yourself clear, it is the last thing you do.
How comes a man like you to be talking philosophy in a blue helmet on the Thames embankment ?" "You have evidently not heard of the latest development in our police system," replied the other.

"I am not surprised at it.

We are keeping it rather dark from the educated class, because that class contains most of our enemies.