That contraption – listen, Brother, they claim it thinks. I didn’t believe it at first. Thought, implying rational principle, implying soul. Can the principle of a “thinking machine” – man-made – be a rational soul? Bah! It seemed a thoroughly pagan notion at first. But do you know what?’ ‘Father?’ ‘Nothing could be that perverse without premeditation! It must think! It knows good and evil, I tell you, and it chose the latter.
