'That's as maybe,' I rejoined. My face started to flush and I could feel my voice rising with my blood pressure, 'But what if the essence you reveal is not what you hoped? It may be that the essence of a man is not his soul - an angel captured in flesh - but a devil in human form? What if the essence of a man is truly as that Darwin fellow presumes: an ape, killing in the dark forests of the past? What if we are truly nothing more than beasts? What might you bring forth with these foolish experiments of yours? What demon might you conjure?' I was now shouting at him, and I could see his own choler rising. 'What kind of fool are you?'

'A fool, am I?' He shouted back. 'Maybe. Maybe I am a fool, but at least I have an open mind! I am not stuck in my ways, but am looking and searching for ways to make the lot of man a better one. If Darwin is right, and his evolution theories are correct, then enquiry and experiment are our ways of adaptation, then I am the future of the human race while your kind will be as extinct as the dinosaurs! And I never said I could release angels from men, I said I could reveal that essence. So what if I reveal a beast? It will further human knowledge and show what a cold thing our society is while it prevents us from acting on the desires of our true essences and helps us aspire to the condition of angels!'