MAURY: All right. What's the fundamental principle of biology?
d**k: You don't know yourself.
MAURY: Don't hedge!
d**k: Well, natural selection?
MAURY: Wrong.
d**k: I give it up.
MAURY: Ontogony recapitulates phyllogony.
FIFTH YOUNG MAN: Take your base!
MAURY: Ask you another. What's the influence of mice on the clover crop? (Laughter.)
FOURTH YOUNG MAN: What's the influence of rats on the Decalogue?
MAURY: Shut up, you saphead. There is a connection.
d**k: What is it then?
MAURY: (Pausing a moment in growing disconcertion) Why, let's see. I seem to have forgotten exactly. Something about the bees eating the clover.
FOURTH YOUNG MAN: And the clover eating the mice! Haw! Haw!
MAURY: (Frowning) Let me just think a minute.
d**k: (Sitting up suddenly) Listen!
(A volley of chatter explodes in the adjoining roo……
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