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That youthful savant Doctor Blahous, Ph. D., only fifty-five years of age, and now Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Prague, rubbed his hands as he sat down before his quarto sheets of paper. With a few swift strokes he set down his title -- "Religious Phenomena of Recent Times" -- and began his article with the words: "The controversy over the definition of the idea of ‘religion' has lasted ever since the days of Cicero"; then he gave himself up to his thoughts.
"I'll send this article to the Prague Times," he said to himself, "and just you wait, my revered colleagues, and see what a stir it will make! It's lucky for me that this religious epidemic has broken out just now! It will make it a very topical little article. The papers will say, ‘That youthful savant, Dr. Blahous, has just published a penetrating study,' etc. Then I'll be given the Assistant Professorship, and old Regner will burst with fury."