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Madness? Perhaps. And yet if it was madness. .
But strange things happen up there, gentlemen. I have found it sometimes hard to define that word. There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it happens that what we call madness is both reasonable and just. It is so. Yes. A little reason is good for us, a little more makes wise men of some of us -- but when our reason over-grows us and we reach too far, something breaks and we go insane.