What wouldst thou think?
Cain.I should be proud of thought
Which knew such things.
Lucifer.But if that high thought were50
Linked to a servile mass of matter—and,
Knowing such things, aspiring to such things,
And science still beyond them, were chained down
To the most gross and petty paltry wants,
All foul and fulsome—and the very best
Of thine enjoyments a sweet degradation,