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SCENE -- _The Burg Terrace at Nuremberg._ PODBURY _on a bench, grappling with the "Epitome of Spencer. "_
PODB. (_reading aloud, with comments_). "For really to conceive the infinite divisibility of matter is mentally to follow out the divisions to infinity, and to do this would require infinite time. " You're right _there_, old cock, and, as I haven't got it to spare, I won't trouble you! -- um -- um. "opposite absurdities" -- "subjective modifications". "ultimate scientific ideas, then, are all representative of ideas that cannot be comprehended. " I could have told _him_ that. What bally rot this Philosophy is -- but I suppose I must peg away at it. Didn't she say she was sorry I didn't go in more for cultivating my mind? (_He looks up._) Jove, here she comes! and yes, there's that beggar Culchard with her! I thought he'd -- how the dickens did he manage to -- -- ? I see what _he's_ after -- thinks he'll cut me out -- twice over -- but he shan't this time, if I can help it.