What Hawthorne cares about, and it comes up constantly throughout the book, is the inheritance that accompanies the Pyncheons and lead them down to a bitter path: "weakness, defects, dark passions, the tendency to do the evil and the moral weaknesses that lead to crime pass from one generation to another".
Answer:
The dialogue supports the theme that wisdom comes from obeying one’s parents, because it shows how the narrator has followed the same path as his father.
Explanation:
F because both scientist are unsure so they would have to reevaluate their decision