Mr X Monologue from Easter

From Easter by August Strindberg

male · philosophical · 56 sec

That goes without saying. If I wanted to make counterfeit money--well, it wouldn't be necessary to dig the gold first. It's remarkable, nevertheless, that if some one were to do what I can't bring myself to do, I should acquit him. But I should not be able to acquit myself. I should be able to put up a brilliant defense for the thief; prove that this gold was _res nullius_, or no one's, and that it got into the earth before there were any land rights; that even now it belongs to no one but the first comer, as the owner had never accounted it part of his property, and so on.

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