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But
the
incident
was
far
from
being
closed
.
Whatever
path
the
lecturer
took
amid
the
wilds
of
the
past
seemed
invariably
to
lead
him
to
some
assertion
as
to
extinct
or
prehistoric
life
which
instantly
brought
the
same
bulls
'
bellow
from
the
Professor
.
The
audience
began
to
anticipate
it
and
to
roar
with
delight
when
it
came
.
The
packed
benches
of
students
joined
in
,
and
every
time
Challenger
's
beard
opened
,
before
any
sound
could
come
forth
,
there
was
a
yell
of
"
Question
!
"
from
a
hundred
voices
,
and
an
answering
counter
cry
of
"
Order
!
"
and
"
Shame
!
"
from
as
many
more
.
Waldron
,
though
a
hardened
lecturer
and
a
strong
man
,
became
rattled
.
He
hesitated
,
stammered
,
repeated
himself
,
got
snarled
in
a
long
sentence
,
and
finally
turned
furiously
upon
the
cause
of
his
troubles
.
"
This
is
really
intolerable
!
"
he
cried
,
glaring
across
the
platform
.
"
I
must
ask
you
,
Professor
Challenger
,
to
cease
these
ignorant
and
unmannerly
interruptions
.
"
There
was
a
hush
over
the
hall
,
the
students
rigid
with
delight
at
seeing
the
high
gods
on
Olympus
quarrelling
among
themselves
.
Challenger
levered
his
bulky
figure
slowly
out
of
his
chair
.
"
I
must
in
turn
ask
you
,
Mr.
Waldron
,
"
he
said
,
"
to
cease
to
make
assertions
which
are
not
in
strict
accordance
with
scientific
fact
.
"
The
words
unloosed
a
tempest
.
"
Shame
!
Shame
!
"
"
Give
him
a
hearing
!
"
"
Put
him
out
!
"
"
Shove
him
off
the
platform
!
"
"
Fair
play
!
"
emerged
from
a
general
roar
of
amusement
or
execration
.
The
chairman
was
on
his
feet
flapping
both
his
hands
and
bleating
excitedly
.
"
Professor
Challenger
--
personal
--
views
--
later
,
"
were
the
solid
peaks
above
his
clouds
of
inaudible
mutter
.
The
interrupter
bowed
,
smiled
,
stroked
his
beard
,
and
relapsed
into
his
chair
.
Waldron
,
very
flushed
and
warlike
,
continued
his
observations
.
Now
and
then
,
as
he
made
an
assertion
,
he
shot
a
venomous
glance
at
his
opponent
,
who
seemed
to
be
slumbering
deeply
,
with
the
same
broad
,
happy
smile
upon
his
face
.
At
last
the
lecture
came
to
an
end
--
I
am
inclined
to
think
that
it
was
a
premature
one
,
as
the
peroration
was
hurried
and
disconnected
.
The
thread
of
the
argument
had
been
rudely
broken
,
and
the
audience
was
restless
and
expectant
.
Waldron
sat
down
,
and
,
after
a
chirrup
from
the
chairman
,
Professor
Challenger
rose
and
advanced
to
the
edge
of
the
platform
.
In
the
interests
of
my
paper
I
took
down
his
speech
verbatim
.
"
Ladies
and
Gentlemen
,
"
he
began
,
amid
a
sustained
interruption
from
the
back
.
"
I
beg
pardon
--
Ladies
,
Gentlemen
,
and
Children
--
I
must
apologize
,
I
had
inadvertently
omitted
a
considerable
section
of
this
audience
"
(
tumult
,
during
which
the
Professor
stood
with
one
hand
raised
and
his
enormous
head
nodding
sympathetically
,
as
if
he
were
bestowing
a
pontifical
blessing
upon
the
crowd
)
,
"
I
have
been
selected
to
move
a
vote
of
thanks
to
Mr.
Waldron
for
the
very
picturesque
and
imaginative
address
to
which
we
have
just
listened
.
There
are
points
in
it
with
which
I
disagree
,
and
it
has
been
my
duty
to
indicate
them
as
they
arose
,
but
,
none
the
less
,
Mr.
Waldron
has
accomplished
his
object
well
,
that
object
being
to
give
a
simple
and
interesting
account
of
what
he
conceives
to
have
been
the
history
of
our
planet
.
Popular
lectures
are
the
easiest
to
listen
to
,
but
Mr.
Waldron
"
(
here
he
beamed
and
blinked
at
the
lecturer
)
"
will
excuse
me
when
I
say
that
they
are
necessarily
both
superficial
and
misleading
,
since
they
have
to
be
graded
to
the
comprehension
of
an
ignorant
audience
.
"
(
Ironical
cheering
.
)
"
Popular
lecturers
are
in
their
nature
parasitic
.
"
(
Angry
gesture
of
protest
from
Mr.
Waldron
.
)
"
They
exploit
for
fame
or
cash
the
work
which
has
been
done
by
their
indigent
and
unknown
brethren
.
One
smallest
new
fact
obtained
in
the
laboratory
,
one
brick
built
into
the
temple
of
science
,
far
outweighs
any
second-hand
exposition
which
passes
an
idle
hour
,
but
can
leave
no
useful
result
behind
it
.
I
put
forward
this
obvious
reflection
,
not
out
of
any
desire
to
disparage
Mr.
Waldron
in
particular
,
but
that
you
may
not
lose
your
sense
of
proportion
and
mistake
the
acolyte
for
the
high
priest
.
"
(
At
this
point
Mr.
Waldron
whispered
to
the
chairman
,
who
half
rose
and
said
something
severely
to
his
water-carafe
.
)
"
But
enough
of
this
!
"
(
Loud
and
prolonged
cheers
.
)
"
Let
me
pass
to
some
subject
of
wider
interest
.
What
is
the
particular
point
upon
which
I
,
as
an
original
investigator
,
have
challenged
our
lecturer
's
accuracy
?
It
is
upon
the
permanence
of
certain
types
of
animal
life
upon
the
earth
.
I
do
not
speak
upon
this
subject
as
an
amateur
,
nor
,
I
may
add
,
as
a
popular
lecturer
,
but
I
speak
as
one
whose
scientific
conscience
compels
him
to
adhere
closely
to
facts
,
when
I
say
that
Mr.
Waldron
is
very
wrong
in
supposing
that
because
he
has
never
himself
seen
a
so-called
prehistoric
animal
,
therefore
these
creatures
no
longer
exist
.
They
are
indeed
,
as
he
has
said
,
our
ancestors
,
but
they
are
,
if
I
may
use
the
expression
,
our
contemporary
ancestors
,
who
can
still
be
found
with
all
their
hideous
and
formidable
characteristics
if
one
has
but
the
energy
and
hardihood
to
seek
their
haunts
.
Creatures
which
were
supposed
to
be
Jurassic
,
monsters
who
would
hunt
down
and
devour
our
largest
and
fiercest
mammals
,
still
exist
.
"
(
Cries
of
"
Bosh
!
"
"
Prove
it
!
"
"
How
do
YOU
know
?
"
"
Question
!
"
)
"
How
do
I
know
,
you
ask
me
?
I
know
because
I
have
visited
their
secret
haunts
.
I
know
because
I
have
seen
some
of
them
.
"
(
Applause
,
uproar
,
and
a
voice
,
"
Liar
!
"
)
"
Am
I
a
liar
?
"
(
General
hearty
and
noisy
assent
.
)
"
Did
I
hear
someone
say
that
I
was
a
liar
?
Will
the
person
who
called
me
a
liar
kindly
stand
up
that
I
may
know
him
?
"
(
A
voice
,
"
Here
he
is
,
sir
!
"
and
an
inoffensive
little
person
in
spectacles
,
struggling
violently
,
was
held
up
among
a
group
of
students
.
)
"
Did
you
venture
to
call
me
a
liar
?
"
(
"
No
,
sir
,
no
!
"
shouted
the
accused
,
and
disappeared
like
a
jack-inthe-box
.
)
"
If
any
person
in
this
hall
dares
to
doubt
my
veracity
,
I
shall
be
glad
to
have
a
few
words
with
him
after
the
lecture
.
"
(
"
Liar
!
"
)
"
Who
said
that
?
"
(
Again
the
inoffensive
one
plunging
desperately
,
was
elevated
high
into
the
air
.
)
"
If
I
come
down
among
you
--
--
"
(
General
chorus
of
"
Come
,
love
,
come
!
"
which
interrupted
the
proceedings
for
some
moments
,
while
the
chairman
,
standing
up
and
waving
both
his
arms
,
seemed
to
be
conducting
the
music
.
The
Professor
,
with
his
face
flushed
,
his
nostrils
dilated
,
and
his
beard
bristling
,
was
now
in
a
proper
Berserk
mood
.
)
"
Every
great
discoverer
has
been
met
with
the
same
incredulity
--
the
sure
brand
of
a
generation
of
fools
.
When
great
facts
are
laid
before
you
,
you
have
not
the
intuition
,
the
imagination
which
would
help
you
to
understand
them
.
You
can
only
throw
mud
at
the
men
who
have
risked
their
lives
to
open
new
fields
to
science
.
You
persecute
the
prophets
!
Galileo
!
Darwin
,
and
I
--
--
"
(
Prolonged
cheering
and
complete
interruption
.
)
