human
They are the people, she said,
gpt
I should choose for friends. They are natural, unsophisticated. And do you know, she went on,
human
Isn't it all very revolutionary?
gpt
Perhaps, replied the doctor, dryly.
human
But they have no more fads than other people. Their theories seem to them not only practical, but they try to apply them to actual legislation; at any rate, they discriminate in vagaries. You would have been amused the other night in a small circle at the lamentations over a member--he was a car-driver--who was the authoritative expositor of Schopenhauer, because he had gone off into Theosophy. It showed such weakness.
gpt
I have heard that the members of that circle were Nihilists.
human
The club has not that name, but probably the members would not care to repudiate the title, or deny that they were Nihilists theoretically--that is, if Nihilism means an absolute social and political overturning in order that something better may be built up. And, indeed, if you see what a hopeless tangle our present situation is, where else can the mind logically go?
gpt
It is pitiful enough, Edith admitted.
human
But all this movement you speak of seems to me a vague agitation.
gpt
I don't think, the doctor said, after a moment,