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CHAPTER XVI
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They think themselves full of common-sense as they think themselves full of honesty.

In reality, they are revealing the clumsy and limited mentality of the assassins themselves.
The shapeless struggle of the elements will begin again on the seared earth when men have slain themselves because they were slaves, because they believed the same things, because they were alike.
I utter a cry of despair and it seems as if I had turned over and stifled it in a pillow.
* * * * * * All is madness.

And there is no one who will dare to rise and say that all is not madness, and that the future does not so appear--as fatal and unchangeable as a memory.
But how many men will there be who will dare, in face of the universal deluge which will be at the end as it was in the beginning, to get up and cry "No!" who will pronounce the terrible and irrefutable issue:-- "No! The interests of the people and the interests of all their present overlords are not the same.

Upon the world's antiquity there are two enemy races--the great and the little.

The allies of the great are, in spite of appearances, the great.


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