Do anything to stop Cossar! You don't seem to remember--one generation--only one generation needs holding down, and then--Then we could level those mounds there, fill up their footsteps, take the ugly sirens from our church towers, smash all our elephant guns, and turn our faces again to the old order, the ripe old civilisation for which the soul of man is fitted." "It's a mighty effort." "For a mighty end.

And if we don't?
Don't you see the prospect before us clear as day?
Everywhere the giants will increase and multiply; everywhere they will make and scatter the Food.

The grass will grow gigantic in our fields, the weeds in our hedges, the vermin in the thickets, the rats in the drains.

More and more and more.

This is only a beginning.