wife. You, Primus, will be her husband.
( closes door behind them )
Alquist ( alone ) Blessed day! ( tiptoes across to bench and pours test-tubes out on floor ) The blessed sixth day! ( sits at desk, throws books on floor; then opens Bible and reads ) “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. ( stands ) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” ( goes to centre of room ) The sixth day. The day of Grace. ( falls to knees ) Lord, now let test Thou Thy servant depart in peace... your most worthless servant, Alquist. Rossum, Fabry, Gall, great inventors, but what was the greatness of your inventions compared to that girl, that boy, compared to that first couple that invented love, tears, a lover’s smile, the love between man and woman? Nature, life will not disappear from you! My friends, Helena, life will not perish! Life begins anew, it begins naked and small and comes from love; it takes root in the desert and all that we have done and built, all our cities and factories, all our great art, all our thoughts and all our philosophies, all this will not pass away. It’s only we that have passed away. Our buildings and machines will fall to ruin, the systems and the names of the great will fall like leaves, but you, love, you flourish in the ruins sow the seeds of life in the wind. Lord, now let test Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes... for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation... seen salvation through love-and life will not perish! ( standing ) Will not perish! ( stretches out hands ) Will not perish!
About the Author
Karel Čapek
January 9, 1890-December 25, 1938
The word robot comes from the word robota meaning literally serf labor, and, figuratively, “ drudgery ” or “ hard work ” in Czech, Slovak and Polish. The origin of the word is the Old Church Slavonic rabota “ servitude ” (“ work ” in contemporary Russian), which in turn comes from the Indo-European root * orbh -. Robot is cognate with the German word Arbeiter (worker).
Karel Čapek introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R. U. R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) in 1921. While it is frequently thought that he was the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to an article in the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual inventor. In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he also explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři (from Latin labor, work). However, he did not like the word, seeing it as too artificial, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested “roboti” (robots in English).
( closes door behind them )
Alquist ( alone ) Blessed day! ( tiptoes across to bench and pours test-tubes out on floor ) The blessed sixth day! ( sits at desk, throws books on floor; then opens Bible and reads ) “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. ( stands ) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” ( goes to centre of room ) The sixth day. The day of Grace. ( falls to knees ) Lord, now let test Thou Thy servant depart in peace... your most worthless servant, Alquist. Rossum, Fabry, Gall, great inventors, but what was the greatness of your inventions compared to that girl, that boy, compared to that first couple that invented love, tears, a lover’s smile, the love between man and woman? Nature, life will not disappear from you! My friends, Helena, life will not perish! Life begins anew, it begins naked and small and comes from love; it takes root in the desert and all that we have done and built, all our cities and factories, all our great art, all our thoughts and all our philosophies, all this will not pass away. It’s only we that have passed away. Our buildings and machines will fall to ruin, the systems and the names of the great will fall like leaves, but you, love, you flourish in the ruins sow the seeds of life in the wind. Lord, now let test Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes... for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation... seen salvation through love-and life will not perish! ( standing ) Will not perish! ( stretches out hands ) Will not perish!
About the Author
Karel Čapek
January 9, 1890-December 25, 1938
The word robot comes from the word robota meaning literally serf labor, and, figuratively, “ drudgery ” or “ hard work ” in Czech, Slovak and Polish. The origin of the word is the Old Church Slavonic rabota “ servitude ” (“ work ” in contemporary Russian), which in turn comes from the Indo-European root * orbh -. Robot is cognate with the German word Arbeiter (worker).
Karel Čapek introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R. U. R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) in 1921. While it is frequently thought that he was the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to an article in the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual inventor. In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he also explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři (from Latin labor, work). However, he did not like the word, seeing it as too artificial, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested “roboti” (robots in English).
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