"Good old Waston! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There-s an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a goog many of us may wither before its blast. But it-s God-s own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the strom has cleared. Start her up, Watson, for it-s time that we were in our way."
「我叫约翰-华生。」我冷静报上姓名后说道,「『灵素』理论的滥觞,可追溯至前世纪德国的麦斯墨医师【注:Franz Anton Mesmer(1734-1815)为十八世纪德国医师,其提倡的概念演变为后世的催眠术】所提倡的『动物磁场理论』。在法兰肯斯坦创造出第一个『人造生命』前,麦斯墨早已奠定了这套理论的基础。」