“It all comes from first principles. Everything can be measured. Everything acts according to physical laws. Our minds included. My mind, that’s doing the deciding, is already set in its course, like a ball rolling down a trough.” “Uncle! Surely you are not denying the existence of souls—of a Supreme Soul.” Daniel says nothing to this. “Neither Newton nor Leibniz would agree with you,” Wait Still continues. “They’re afraid to agree with me, because they are important men, and they would be destroyed if they came out and said it. But no one will bother to destroy me.”
