"The fighter was swift and amazingly scientific."
    Although the reader has no way of understanding this reference to science at the moment, after the story comes full circle, it can be interpreted as The Invisible Man’s criticism of the brotherhood.  The brotherhood is yet another group of people that set the Invisible man running.  The concept of the Brotherhood contains the inherent flaw of dogmatic belief in an unadulterated commitment to the scientific process.  This statement also illuminates the flaw of their rigidity and claims the possibility that the underdog can win.


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