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who really understood Comte...."
"But you don't mean to say--" said Redwood, alarmed out of his disdain
for Winkles.
"They'll not do all that," said Winkles. "But public opinion is public
opinion, and votes are votes. Everybody can see you are up to a
disturbing thing. And the human instinct is all against disturbance, you
know. Nobody seems to believe Caterham's idea of people thirty-seven
feet high, who won't be able to get inside a church, or a meeting-house,
or any social or human institution. But for all that they're not so easy
in their minds about it. They see there's something--something more than
a common discovery--"
"
There is," said Redwood, "in every discovery."
"Anyhow, they're getting--restive. Caterham keeps harping on what may
happen if it gets loose again. I say over and over again, it won't, and
it can't. But--there it is!"
And he bounced about the room for a little while as if he meant to
reopen the topic of the secret, and then thought better of it and went.
The two scientific men looked at one another. For a space only their
eyes spoke.
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