Although the same pattern, a doctor does an experiment, he has patients who try the experiment, something horrible happens, and the doctor just looks in the name of science. Dr. Heidegger was tempted by science to continue observing the experiment. It seems that the transition from the first industrial revolution to the first modern war (the Civil War) gave Hawthorne the impression of a negative change. Similar to those of us today who are against technology and robots, computers and automatic machines, it seems that Hawthorne was against updating science and technology like the cotton gin, which indirectly triggers civil war. Hawthorne describes this feeling quite obviously through the number of his short stories about science and experimentation to update technology, assuming that one day that is what we will become, a band of tempted people on a quest of youth and human perfection thanks to medicine. In a way we are already there, with things like 3D printing of body parts and organs we will be able to fight aging and blend in with the human being.