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The
white
marble
of
the
walls
gave
it
a
classical
grandeur
;
the
composition
of
its
rectangular
masses
gave
it
the
cleanliness
and
beauty
of
a
modern
plant
.
It
was
an
inspired
structure
.
From
across
the
river
,
people
looked
at
it
with
reverence
and
thought
of
it
as
a
monument
to
a
living
man
whose
character
had
the
nobility
of
the
building
’
s
lines
.
Over
the
entrance
,
a
dedication
was
cut
into
the
marble
:
"
To
the
fearless
mind
.
To
the
inviolate
truth
.
"
In
a
quiet
aisle
,
in
a
bare
corridor
,
a
small
brass
plate
,
such
as
dozens
of
other
name
plates
on
other
doors
,
said
:
Dr
.
Robert
Stadler
.
At
the
age
of
twenty
-
seven
,
Dr
.
Robert
Stadler
had
written
a
treatise
on
cosmic
rays
,
which
demolished
most
of
the
theories
held
by
the
scientists
who
preceded
him
.
Those
who
followed
,
found
his
achievement
somewhere
at
the
base
of
any
line
of
inquiry
they
undertook
.
At
the
age
of
thirty
,
he
was
recognized
as
the
greatest
physicist
of
his
time
.
At
thirty
-
two
,
he
became
head
of
the
Department
of
Physics
of
the
Patrick
Henry
University
,
in
the
days
when
the
great
University
still
deserved
its
glory
.
It
was
of
Dr
.
Robert
Stadler
that
a
writer
had
said
:
"
Perhaps
,
among
the
phenomena
of
the
universe
which
he
is
studying
,
none
is
so
miraculous
as
the
brain
of
Dr
.
Robert
Stadler
himself
.
"
It
was
Dr
.
Robert
Stadler
who
had
once
corrected
a
student
:
"
Free
scientific
inquiry
?
The
first
adjective
is
redundant
.
"
At
the
age
of
forty
,
Dr
.
Robert
Stadler
addressed
the
nation
,
endorsing
the
establishment
of
a
State
Science
Institute
.
"
Set
science
free
of
the
rule
of
the
dollar
,
"
he
pleaded
.
The
issue
had
hung
in
the
balance
;
an
obscure
group
of
scientists
had
quietly
forced
a
bill
through
its
long
way
to
the
floor
of
the
Legislature
;
there
had
been
some
public
hesitation
about
the
bill
,
some
doubt
,
an
uneasiness
no
one
could
define
.
The
name
of
Dr
.
Robert
Stadler
acted
upon
the
country
like
the
cosmic
rays
he
studied
:
it
pierced
any
barrier
.
The
nation
built
the
white
marble
edifice
as
a
personal
present
to
one
of
its
greatest
men
.
Dr
.
Stadler
’
s
office
at
the
Institute
was
a
small
room
that
looked
like
the
office
of
the
bookkeeper
of
an
unsuccessful
firm
.
There
was
a
cheap
desk
of
ugly
yellow
oak
,
a
filing
cabinet
,
two
chairs
,
and
a
blackboard
chalked
with
mathematical
formulas
.
Sitting
on
one
of
the
chairs
against
a
blank
wall
,
Dagny
thought
that
the
office
had
an
air
of
ostentation
and
elegance
,
together
:
ostentation
,
because
it
seemed
intended
to
suggest
that
the
owner
was
great
enough
to
permit
himself
such
a
setting
;
elegance
,
because
he
truly
needed
nothing
else
.
She
had
met
Dr
.
Stadler
on
a
few
occasions
,
at
banquets
given
by
leading
businessmen
or
great
engineering
societies
,
in
honor
of
some
solemn
cause
or
another
.
She
had
attended
the
occasions
as
reluctantly
as
he
did
,
and
had
found
that
he
liked
to
talk
to
her
.
"
Miss
Taggart
,
"
he
had
said
to
her
once
,
"
I
never
expect
to
encounter
intelligence
.
That
I
should
find
it
here
is
such
an
astonishing
relief
!
"
She
had
come
to
his
office
,
remembering
that
sentence
.
She
sat
,
watching
him
in
the
manner
of
a
scientist
:
assuming
nothing
,
discarding
emotion
,
seeking
only
to
observe
and
to
understand
.
"
Miss
Taggart
,
"
he
said
gaily
,
"
I
’
m
curious
about
you
,
I
’
m
curious
whenever
anything
upsets
a
precedent
.
As
a
rule
,
visitors
are
a
painful
duty
to
me
.
I
’
m
frankly
astonished
that
I
should
feel
such
a
simple
pleasure
in
seeing
you
here
.
Do
you
know
what
it
’
s
like
to
feel
suddenly
that
one
can
talk
without
the
strain
of
trying
to
force
some
sort
of
understanding
out
of
a
vacuum
?
"
