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The Earth Is Made of Glass
Originally Aired: June 15, 1954
Suspense #556, "The Earth Is Made of Glass,"
Richard Thomas Steele, a wealthy intellectual recluse, engages in a heated philosophical debate with his chess partner Elliot about Emerson's theory of compensation – that every crime leaves an inescapable trace and exacts a spiritual price on the perpetrator. Steele scoffs at this notion, arguing that the scientific method has rendered such ideas obsolete. He becomes obsessed with proving Emerson wrong by conducting what he calls a "laboratory murder" – a killing committed in complete emotional and material vacuum…
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