Although the same pattern, a doctor does an experiment, has patients try the experiment, something horrible happens and the doctor does nothing but watch in the name of science. Dr. Heidegger was tempted by science to continue watching the experiment. It seems that the transition from the first industrial revolution to the first modern war (being 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 upgrading science and technology like the cotton gin, which indirectly starts civil war. Hawthorne portrays this sentiment quite prominently through his tales of science and experimentation to upgrade technology, assuming that one day this is what we will become, a group of tempted people seeking youth and human perfection through drugs. In a way we are already there, with things like 3D printing of body parts and organs we will be able to counteract aging and merge into the human being.