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发帖数: 6791 | 1 Mamma. You disobedient child, have you been associating with that
irreligious Hollister again?
Bessie. Well, mamma, he is interesting, anyway, although wicked, and I can't
help loving interesting people. Here is the conversation we had:
Hollister. Bessie, suppose you should take some meat and bones and fur, and
make a cat out of it, and should tell the cat, Now you are not to be unkind
to any creature, on pain of punishment and death. And suppose the cat should
disobey, and catch a mouse and torture it and kill it. What would you do to
the cat?
Bessie. Nothing.
H. Why?
B. Because I know what the cat would say. She would say, It's my nature, I
couldn't help it; I didn't make my nature, you made it. And so you are
responsible for what I've done -- I'm not. I couldn't answer that, Mr.
Hollister.
H. It's just the case of Frankenstein and his Monster over again.
B. What is that?
H. Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of
them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering
everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made
him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime
he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.
B. Of course he was right.
H. I judge so. It's just the case of God and man and you and the cat over
again.
B. How is that?
H. God made man, without man's consent, and made his nature, too; made it
vicious instead of angelic, and then said, Be angelic, or I will ill punish
you and destroy you. But no matter, God is responsible for everything man
does, all the same; He can't get around that fact. There is only one
Criminal, and it is not man.
Mamma. This is atrocious! it is wicked, blasphemous, irreverent, horrible!
Bessie. Yes'm, but it's true. And I'm not going to make a cat. I would be
above making a cat if I couldn't make a good one. |
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