LORD CHANCELLOR. Peace! One crow does not peck out the other's eye.
PHILOSOPHY. If I had to choose between those two, Theology and Medicine, I should choose—neither!
JURISPRUDENCE. And if I had to sit in judgment on the three of you, I should find—all guilty! You cannot agree on a single point, and you never could. Let us get back to the case in court. What is the opinion of the Lord Chancellor as to this door and its opening?
LORD CHANCELLOR. Opinion? I have no opinion whatever. I am merely appointed by the government to see that you don't break each other's arms and legs in the Council—while you are educating the young! Opinion? Why, I take mighty good care to avoid everything of the kind. Once I had one or two, but they were refuted at once. Opinions are always refuted—by their opponents, of course—But perhaps we might open the door now, even with the risk of finding some dangerous truths behind it?
JURISPRUDENCE. What is truth? What is truth?
THEOLOGY. I am the truth and the life——
PHILOSOPHY. I am the science of sciences——
MEDICINE. I am the only exact science——
JURISPRUDENCE. I doubt—— [They fight.
THE DAUGHTER. Instructors of the young, take shame!