Dr. Moreau:
What is the law?
Sayer of the Law:
Not to eat meat, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison):
Are we not men?
Dr. Moreau:
What is the law?
Sayer of the Law:
Not to go on all fours, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison):
Are we not men?
Dr. Moreau:
What is the law?
Sayer of the Law:
Not to spill blood, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison):
Are we not men?
Dr. Moreau:
Mr. Parker, do you know what it means to feel like God?
Ruth Thomas:
[
hearing chanting] What's that?
Dr. Moreau:
The natives, they have a curious ceremony. Mr. Parker has witnessed it.
Ruth Thomas:
Tell us about it, Edward.
Edward Parker:
Oh, it's... it's nothing.
Dr. Moreau:
They are restless tonight.
Dr. Moreau:
She's never seen anything like him.
Mr. Montgomery:
No?
Dr. Moreau:
You and I don't count. The only reactions we get from her are fear and terror.
Mr. Montgomery:
That's understandable.
Dr. Moreau:
But how will she respond to Parker where there's no cause for fear? Will she be attracted? Is she capable of being attracted? Has she a woman's emotional impulses? I could scarcely hope for a chance like this short of London.
Edward Parker:
Those poor things out there in the jungle. Those animals. They - They talk.
Dr. Moreau:
That was my first great achievement. Articulate speech controlled by the brain. And it was a great achievement! Oh, it takes a long time and infinite patience to make them talk.
[
Moreau gives an impish smile and a chuckle]
Dr. Moreau:
Someday I will create a woman and it'll be easier.
Dr. Moreau:
Did you see that, Montgomery? She was tender like a woman. Oh, how that little scene spurs the scientific imagination onward.
Captain Donahue:
That jungle don't look any too inviting.
Ruth Thomas:
We must go on. We've got to find him.
Captain Donahue:
All right. I'd just as soon leave it for somebody else to do. If there was anybody else here to do it.
Captain Donahue:
What kind of a place did you say this was, Doc?
Dr. Moreau:
I didn't say.
Captain Davies:
Now men, stay sober! Any drinkin' to be done, I'll do it myself.
Dr. Moreau:
Have you forgotten the house of pain?
Sayer of the Law:
You! You made us in the house of pain! You made us... things! Not men! Not beasts! Part men! Things!
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