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Rh Why do you keep from us the secret of our own increase?

It is lost.

It was written down!

It was—burnt.

[All draw back in consternation.]

I am the last human being, Robots, and I do not know what the others knew.

[Pause.]

Then, make experiments! Evolve the formula again!

I tell you I cannot! I am only a builder—I work with my hands. I have never been a learned man. I cannot create life.