Asher Monologue from Dr. Jonathan

From Dr. Jonathan by Winston Churchill

male · contemplative · 1:09 min

On account of his health. He was delicate as a boy. He must have been about eight or nine years old when Uncle Henry left Foxon Falls for the west,--that was before you were born. Uncle Henry died somewhere in Iowa. He and my father never got along. Uncle Henry had as much as your grandfather to begin with, and let it slip through his fingers. He managed to send Jonathan to a medical school, and it seems that he's had some sort of a position at Johns Hopkins's--research work. I don't know what he's got to live on. (GEORGE: Uncle Henry must have been a philanthropist.) It's all very well to be a philanthropist when you make more than you give away. Otherwise you're a sentimentalist. (GEORGE: Or a Christian.) We can't take Christianity too literally. GEORGE (smiling). That's its great advantage, as a religion.

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