Trebell Monologue from Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts

From Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Harley Granville-Barker

male · philosophical · 1:15 min

But teaching--true teaching--is learning, and the wish to know is going to prevail against any creed... so I think. I wish you cared as little for the form in which a truth is told as I do. On the whole, you see, I think I shall manage to plant your theology in such soil this spring that the garden will be fruitful. On the whole I'm a believer in Churches of all sorts and their usefulness to the State. Your present use is out-worn. Have I found you in this the beginnings of a new one? (CANTELUPE: The Church says: Thank you, it is a very old one.) (Winding up the interview.) To be sure, for practical politics our talk can be whittled down to your accepting the secular solution for Primary Schools, if you're given these colleges under such statutes as you and I shall agree upon. (CANTELUPE: And the country will accept.) The country will accept any measure if there's enough money in it to bribe all parties fairly.

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