Prince (still smiling).
I don't mean anything.
von Berkelwitz.
Gentlemen, I'm only a plain country squire, but I should like to suggest that the morals of our hostess are hardly a subject for discussion.
Prince.
Morals? Morals? What do morals signify? They were only invented for the preservation of the race.
von Berkelwitz.
That's over my head, your Highness.
Prince.
It's simple enough. Mankind is bound to go on reproducing itself--that's its fundamental instinct. Morality was invented to keep the strain pure. If it ceases to accomplish that purpose, it had better abdicate in favour of immorality. That's all.