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Domin

This has nothing to do with the soul.

Helena

That's what he said. He said that he could change only a physiological—a physiological——

Hallemeier

A physiological correlate?

Helena

Yes. But it meant so much to me that he should do even that.

Domin

Why?

Helena

I thought that if they were more like us they would understand us better. That they couldn't hate us if they were only a little more human.

Domin

Nobody can hate man more than man.

Helena

Oh, don't speak like that, Harry. It was so terrible, this cruel strangeness between us and them. That's