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1"You are in part right, friend John, but only in part. I want to tell you something. And oh, my friend, I am taking a
2great--a terrible--risk; but I believe it is right. In the moment when Madam Mina said those words that arrest both our
3understanding, an inspiration came to me. In the trance of three days ago the Count sent her his spirit to read her
4mind; or more like he took her to see him in his earth-box in the ship with water rushing, just as it go free at rise
5and set of sun. He learn then that we are here; for she have more to tell in her open life with eyes to see and ears to
6hear than he, shut, as he is, in his coffin-box. Now he make his most effort to escape us. At present he want her not.
7"He is sure with his so great knowledge that she will come at his call; but he cut her off--take her, as he can do, out
8of his own power, that so she come not to him. Ah! there I have hope that our man-brains that have been of man so long
9and that have not lost the grace of God, will come higher than his child-brain that lie in his tomb for centuries, that
10grow not yet to our stature, and that do only work selfish and therefore small. Here comes Madam Mina; not a word to her
11of her trance! She know it not; and it would overwhelm her and make despair just when we want all her hope, all her
12courage; when most we want all her great brain which is trained like man's brain, but is of sweet woman and have a
13special power which the Count give her, and which he may not take away altogether--though he think not so. Hush! let me
14speak, and you shall learn. Oh, John, my friend, we are in awful straits. I fear, as I never feared before. We can only
15trust the good God. Silence! here she comes!" I thought that the Professor was going to break down and have hysterics,
16just as he had when Lucy died, but with a great effort he controlled himself and was at perfect nervous poise when Mrs.
17Harker tripped into the room, bright and happy-looking and, in the doing of work, seemingly forgetful of her misery. As
18she came in, she handed a number of sheets of typewriting to Van Helsing. He looked over them gravely, his face
19brightening up as he read. Then holding the pages between his finger and thumb he said:-- "Friend John, to you with so
20much of experience already--and you, too, dear Madam Mina, that are young--here is a lesson: do not fear ever to think.
21A half-thought has been buzzing often in my brain, but I fear to let him loose his wings. Here now, with more knowledge,
22I go back to where that half-thought come from and I find that he be no half-thought at all; that be a whole thought,
23though so young that he is not yet strong to use his little wings. Nay, like the "Ugly Duck" of my friend Hans Andersen,
24he be no duck-thought at all, but a big swan-thought that sail nobly on big wings, when the time come for him to try
25them. See I read here what Jonathan have written:-- "That other of his race who, in a later age, again and again,
26brought his forces over The Great River into Turkey Land; who, when he was beaten back, came again, and again, and
27again, though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being slaughtered, since he knew that he
28alone could ultimately triumph." "What does this tell us? Not much? no! The Count's child-thought see nothing; therefore
29he speak so free. Your man-thought see nothing; my man-thought see nothing, till just now. No! But there comes another
30word from some one who speak without thought because she, too, know not what it mean--what it might mean. Just as there
31are elements which rest, yet when in nature's course they move on their way and they touch--then pouf! and there comes a
32flash of light, heaven wide, that blind and kill and destroy some; but that show up all earth below for leagues and
33leagues. Is it not so? Well, I shall explain. To begin, have you ever study the philosophy of crime? 'Yes' and 'No.'
34You, John, yes; for it is a study of insanity. You, no, Madam Mina; for crime touch you not--not but once. Still, your
35mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale. There is this peculiarity in criminals. It is so constant,
36in all countries and at all times, that even police, who know not much from philosophy, come to know it empirically,
37that it is. That is to be empiric. The criminal always work at one crime--that is the true criminal who seems
38predestinate to crime, and who will of none other. This criminal has not full man-brain. He is clever and cunning and
39resourceful; but he be not of man-stature as to brain. He be of child-brain in much. Now this criminal of ours is
40predestinate to crime also; he, too, have child-brain, and it is of the child to do what he have done. The little bird,
41the little fish, the little animal learn not by principle, but empirically; and when he learn to do, then there is to
42him the ground to start from to do more. 'Dos pou sto,' said Archimedes. 'Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the
43world!' To do once, is the fulcrum whereby child-brain become man-brain; and until he have the purpose to do more, he
44continue to do the same again every time, just as he have done before! Oh, my dear, I see that your eyes are opened, and
45that to you the lightning flash show all the leagues," for Mrs. Harker began to clap her hands and her eyes sparkled. He
46went on:-- "Now you shall speak. Tell us two dry men of science what you see with those so bright eyes." He took her
47hand and held it whilst she spoke. His finger and thumb closed on her pulse, as I thought instinctively and
48unconsciously, as she spoke:-- "The Count is a criminal and of criminal type. Nordau and Lombroso would so classify him,
49and quâ criminal he is of imperfectly formed mind. Thus, in a difficulty he has to seek resource in habit. His past is a
50clue, and the one page of it that we know--and that from his own lips--tells that once before, when in what Mr. Morris
51would call a 'tight place,' he went back to his own country from the land he had tried to invade, and thence, without
52losing purpose, prepared himself for a new effort. He came again better equipped for his work; and won. So he came to
53London to invade a new land. He was beaten, and when all hope of success was lost, and his existence in danger, he fled
54back over the sea to his home; just as formerly he had fled back over the Danube from Turkey Land." "Good, good! oh, you
55so clever lady!" said Van Helsing, enthusiastically, as he stooped and kissed her hand. A moment later he said to me, as
56calmly as though we had been having a sick-room consultation:-- "Seventy-two only; and in all this excitement. I have
57hope." Turning to her again, he said with keen expectation:-- "But go on. Go on! there is more to tell if you will. Be
58not afraid; John and I know. I do in any case, and shall tell you if you are right. Speak, without fear!" "I will try
59to; but you will forgive me if I seem egotistical." "Nay! fear not, you must be egotist, for it is of you that we
60think." "Then, as he is criminal he is selfish; and as his intellect is small and his action is based on selfishness, he
61confines himself to one purpose. That purpose is remorseless. As he fled back over the Danube, leaving his forces to be
62cut to pieces, so now he is intent on being safe, careless of all. So his own selfishness frees my soul somewhat from
63the terrible power which he acquired over me on that dreadful night. I felt it! Oh, I felt it! Thank God, for His great
64mercy! My soul is freer than it has been since that awful hour; and all that haunts me is a fear lest in some trance or
65dream he may have used my knowledge for his ends." The Professor stood up:--
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