There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it. ~ Ch. 14

Gentlemen, the most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it. And the most important part of experimentation is not doing the exper…

Like all ardent agnostics, Martin was a religious man. ~ Ch. 16

In the study of the profession to which he had looked forward all his life he found irritation and vacuity as well as serene wisdom; he saw no one clear path t…