BARRETT
There was some hitch in that experiment, however. The chain wasn’t quite complete.
SYPHERS
I know—I know. I grant you that. All I’m insisting on is that if one cell, one radiobe, say, can be generated by a synthesis of energy, why not millions? And if millions, why not billions, the whole human family, in short, since we are a synthesis of cells—this whole visible scene in all its details? I know it sounds wild, but (to Mitchell) I have heard you yourself say that you thought it might be possible that we were all a part of some invisible psychic body, force body, in the mechanism of which we function in some way, just as the cells do in ours.
MITCHELL
(Much flattered.) Yes, I have said as much.
SYPHERS
Well, then, why may not my theory be true?