Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


"I'm afraid I'm like you," Graham said, "that commoner and lesser
creature, a genius. For I, too, on occasion, flare and do the most
unintentional things. And I am not above falling on my knees before
mystery."


"And Dick hates mystery--or it would seem he does. Not content with
knowing _how_--he is eternally seeking the _why_ of the
_how_. Mystery is a challenge to him. It excites him like a red
rag does a bull. At once he is for ripping the husks and the heart
from mystery, so that he will know the _how_ and the _why_,
when it will be no longer mystery but a generalization and a
scientifically demonstrable fact."

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