When Professor Waldman hears the names of Paracelsus and Agrippa, he does not respond with the same contempt Victor met with when he uttered these names in front of Professor Krempe. Waldman, instead, declares that modern scientists are, in fact, indebted to these men because their "indefatigable zeal" helped to lay the foundation of the sciences. Waldman believes that the work of men like Paracelsus and Agrippa, those scientists who came first, paved the way...
