Cantelupe. [Interested in the digression] Remember that the Church's claim has ever been to know that difference.
Trebell. [Fastening to his subject again.] My point is this: A man's demand to know the exact structure of a fly's wing, and his assertion that it degrades any child in the street not to know such a thing, is a religious revival ... a token of spiritual hunger. What else can it be? And we commercialise our teaching!
Cantelupe. I wouldn't have it so.
Trebell. Then I'm offering you the foundation of a new Order of men and women who'll serve God by teaching his children. Now shall we finish the conversation in prose?
Cantelupe. [Not to be put down.] What is the prose for God?
Trebell. [Not to be put down either.] That's what we irreligious people are giving our lives to discover. [He plunges into detail.] I'm proposing to found about seventy-two new colleges, and of course, to bring the ones there are up to the new standard. Then we must gradually revise all teaching salaries in government schools ... to a scale I have in mind. Then the course must be compulsory and the training time doubled—
Cantelupe. Doubled! Four years?
Trebell. Well, a minimum of three ... a university course. Remember we're turning a trade into a calling.
Cantelupe. There's more to that than taking a degree.
Trebell. I think so. You've fought for years for your tests and your atmosphere with plain business men not able to understand such lunacy. Quite right ... atmosphere's all that matters. If one and one don't make two by God's grace....