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BORÍS. It is also given in order to enable us to see that social order
should not be maintained by violence, but by goodness; and that one
man's refusal to participate in evil cannot be at all dangerous.
HEAD DOCTOR. Well now, allow me to examine you a bit. Will you have the
goodness to lie down? [Begins touching him] You feel no pain here?
BORÍS. No.
HEAD DOCTOR. Nor here?
BORÍS. No.
HEAD DOCTOR. Take a deep breath, please. Now don't breathe. Now allow me
[takes out a measure and measures forehead and nose]. Now be so good as
to shut your eyes and walk.
BORÍS. Are you not ashamed to do all this?
HEAD DOCTOR. What do you mean?
BORÍS. All this nonsense? You know that I am quite well and that I am
sent here because I refuse to take part in their evil deeds, and because
they have no answer to give to the truth I told them; and that is why
they pretend to think me mad. And you co-operate with them. It is
horrid and it is shameful. Don't do it!
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