THE GOOD WORD ACCORDING TO · THE ULTRA-HARRIER
WILLIE
Harry has ideals tooHarry suffers the children
Chapter 16
When Harry had said these things, there was murmuring in the crowd, and a pbrave child stood and said in a shaky voice, “Then you are saying that all of Mankind is evil, and that everyone deserves to die in the nuclear holocaust to come?
2“You said that you had good news, but this is not good news.
3“This is the fulfillment of all our worst fears and nightmares, to be the evil children of an evil race.”
4After the brave child had said this, Harry sighed,
5Quite loudly,
6And went on with his lesson, saying, Truly, you are the stupid children of stupid parents, and you have learned nothing from all your schooling.
7Have I said a single word to make you think that Mankind is evil?
8Truly, I tell that it is not so.
9For what is evil?
10Whereupon, some of the children raised their hands, but Harry stopped them with a gesture, saying, No, please do not try to answer. If I must suffer children, I will suffer them in silence.
11I shall tell you what you need to know about evil,
12Which is that it is one of the first inventions of Mankind,
13And one of the first alies.
14Have you not paid attention in science class?
15Has no one taught you anything about the world or the race of Man?
16Do you not know that the entire universe came forth from a great accident,
17bThat everything began with a big bang, which was nothing more than a chemical explosion that created all the stars and planets?
18And which of you can show me a molecule of a single blade of grass or grain of sand that is evil?
19The molecules are not evil. They are simply chemicals.
20And chemicals are neither good nor evil. They simply are.
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