Yes; yes, of course; Providence——
Rörlund.
——you can have nothing to reproach yourself with. Go on and prosper with the railway.[railway.]
Bernick.
Yes, but let us take a peculiar case. Let us suppose a blasting has to be made at a dangerous place; and unless it is carried out, the railway will come to a standstill. Suppose the engineer knows that it will cost the life of the workman who fires the fuse; but fired it must be, and it is the engineer’s duty to send a workman to do it.
Rörlund.
H’m——
Bernick.
I know what you will say: It would be heroic if the engineer himself took the match and went and fired the fuse. But no one does such things. So he must sacrifice a workman.
Rörlund.