“That’s very good.” “It certainly is. He made another happy phrase, criticizing the Spanish administration. ‘For what reason do they write so many useless papers?’ he said. ‘So that rats, the obscene reptiles, can go on eating them....’”
“That’s very good too.”
“He is a man without any education, but very intelligent. So you are going to come?”
“Yes.”
“Then we will meet at the station.”
CAN ONE CHANGE OR NOT?
They took the train at night and they chatted as they went along in it. Cæsar explained to Alzugaray the difficulties he had had to overcome in order that the Workmen’s Club could be reinstituted, and went on detailing his projects for the future.
“Do you believe the town is going to be transformed?” asked Alzugaray.
“Yes, certainly!” said Cæsar, staring at his friend.
“So then, you, a Darwinist who hold it as a scientific doctrine that only the slow action of environment can transform species and individuals, believe that a poor worn-out, jog-trotting race is going to revive suddenly, in a few years! Can a Darwinist believe in a revolutionizing miracle?”