This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Invisible Man." In this poem, a man is described as "nothing without his blood" . In other words, the man is nothing without his own blood. In this passage, we are told that the blood of a man cannot resist the power of his mind. In fact, even a blood servant cannot resist Henry's mind control. The blood servant, however, is not without his power. He is a "blood servant," but he is also a "born to be trampled." The blood of the man, he says, is "supposed to follow the