We ought all to be digging Panama canals!" "Heavens, Wayne--we don't need them." "Plenty of things we do need." "Well I don't think you're fair to the army, Wayne.

You're not looking into it--deeply enough.

You're doing just as much as Fred, for in safeguarding the country you permit this constructive work to go on.

As to our formalities--they have run off into absurdity at some points, but it was a real spirit created those very forms." "True.

And now the spirit's dead and the form's left--and what's so absurd as a form that rattles dead bones ?" "Father didn't feel as you do, Wayne." "He had no cause to.