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"Look here, Bedford," said Cavor, "you came on this expedition of your own
free will."
"
"
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You said to me, 'Call it prospecting'."
There's always risks in prospecting."
Especially when you do it unarmed and without thinking out every
possibility."
"I was so taken up with the sphere. The thing rushed on us, and carried us
away."
"Rushed on me, you mean."
"
Rushed on me just as much. How was I to know when I set to work on
molecular physics that the business would bring me here--of all places?"
"
It's this accursed science," I cried. "It's the very Devil. The medieval
priests and persecutors were right and the Moderns are all wrong. You
tamper with it--and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it
knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way. Old passions and new
weapons--now it upsets your religion, now it upsets your social ideas,
now it whirls you off to desolation and misery!"
"Anyhow, it's no use your quarrelling with me now. These creatures--these
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