human
Karl, she said abruptly,
gpt
Liebchen, he said,
human
But Karl--it isn't logical that you and I should love each other this way!
gpt
Well, sweetheart, he said,
human
Oh, I'm not insisting upon the logic. I'm just wondering about it.
gpt
Isn't love greater than either a test tube or a paint brush?
human
Ernestine, he began,
gpt
Why, yes--I do, but I didn't suppose you did.
human
But, liebchen--who would be more apt to think about it than I? Doesn't my work teach oneness more than it teaches anything else? All the quarrelling comes through a failure to recognise the oneness. I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?