Hodge said; “I don’t know where it came from, but I think I can explain it. It goes with religion, which is so often an outgrowth of sex—or a substitute for it.”
“What really interests me,” said McCall, “is what happened in a political sense.”
“Well, the short-range developments seem fairly obvious,” said Penfield, “and long-range ones are always unpredictable.”
“I wonder if it really exists,” said Hodge, as Penfield had the night before.
Penfield got up, went to the window, and looked out at the scudding clouds. “I wonder if we do,” he said.
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