人们怎么这么不合理？他问，但他知道。即使是废奴主义者也不希望将其放置在创造中，但要遵守其法律。他们希望从上帝桌子的头上统治它。
(How are people so irrational? he asked, but he knew. Even the abolitionists had no wish to be placed inside creation, subject to its laws. They wished to rule over it from the head of God's table.)