Ethically, as well as technologically... . ..they were a million years ahead of humankind... . ..for in unlocking the mysteries of nature... . ..they had conquered even their baser selves.

But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.