I will tell you, briefly, my theory of
the case. But first let me say, in justice to Frye, that he was in no
position to know certain facts that give the clue to George's condition
the mental history.
ASHER. I don't understand.
DR. JONATHAN. The day he left home, for France, certain things happened
to him to arouse his sympathy with what we call working people, their
lives and aspirations. As you know, George has a very human side,--he
loves his fellow men. He'd never thought of these things before. He
went with them, naturally, to you, and I infer that you suppressed him!
ASHER. I told him I couldn't discuss certain aspects. His emotional
state troubled me,--he was going away, and I imagined he would get over
it.
DR. JONATHAN. He didn't get over it. It was an emotional crisis. He
left home with a conflict in his mind,--a conflict between his affection
for you and that which he had suddenly come to see was right. I mean,
right for today, for the year and hour in which we are living. This
question of the emancipation of labour began a hundred years ago, with
the introduction of machinery and the rise of modern industry, and in
this war it has come to a head. Well, as the time approached for George
to risk his life for his new beliefs, his mental conflict deepened.
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