Enough! What was your line?
AGNUS
Well—to explain quickly—but not quite accurately—immortality—
THE DEVIL
The devil you say! Pardon my using human terms! But—immortality!
AGNUS
I’ve made an animal’s functions live after the animal died.
THE DEVIL
That’s enough. And without my help! Why, that was my very next job! To take some scientist’s body for a few years and start the world on the path toward longer life. Of course, immortality of the body is all rot. It’s bound to wear out some time. But—five hundred years—that’s possible. It would save putting souls back into new-borns. For it takes a hundred ordinary human lives to be ready for Mars. Out of all the billions of men who have lived, we have only a few thousand earth-people up there. The second-rate geniuses—Napoleon, Caesar, George Washington, Tamerlane—all the second-raters—
AGNUS