8/15 Since you have had understanding, your eyes have been fixed upon this one immense problem. I have a question to ask you concerning it. Shall I destroy for the sake of the unborn generations, or shall I use all my cunning and the power of the people to lead them a little further into the light during their living days? "A few years might see Society reconstituted, with new laws and a new humanity." Maraton shook his head. "If I press the levers upon which to-day my hand seems to rest, this country will be laid waste with famine and riot and conquest. |