Or blood is life itself, as Hunter prov’d,

What matters it? Doctors may disagree

On subjects which concern not you or me.

Most foolish things wise men have oft conceived;

More foolish should we seem if we believed

Their theories; for instance, they did plan

A lofty tower, thus to enable man

To clamber into Heaven. This “Babel”

Seems to us unreal as a fable.

But other “Babels” on the social stage