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Updated: May 18, 2025
Esprit de Corps was of vital importance, but as officers and non-commissioned officers were drawn from every branch and every regiment of the army this was no easy matter and was only achieved by the splendid example and precept of such men as Herbert, Becke, Longcroft, Chinnery and Barrington-Kennett. We selected our motto: "Per Ardua ad Astra."
If these mermen had not seen a colonist before, he might resemble Those Others in their eyes. But only his species on all Astra had five fingers, five toes, and that physical evidence might insure his safety now. "Why do you bring a destroyer among us? Or do you offer him for our punishment, so that we can lay upon him the doom that his kind have earned?"
Picas de la Mirandola, who believed in astrology, says, "I have no doubt truly, 'Astra influunt, non cogunt." But would it have been a real proof of the truth of astrology, if Farsetti had been assassinated on a Friday? In my opinion, certainly not.
Before he dropped out of sight behind that barrier he raised the spear in salute. "Swift and fortunate voyaging!" He gave the farewell of Homeport. Then Raf understood. The colonist meant just what he had said: he wanted no contact with the space ship. To Raf he had owed a debt and now that was paid. But the time was not yet when the men of Astra and the men of Terra should meet.
That might be the way to glory, or at least to distinction sic itur ad astra; unfortunately, it was not the way to Dublin. Consequently, on every day of our journey and the days were ten not once, but always, we had the same deadly conflict to repeat; and this being always unavailing, found its solution uniformly in the following ultimate resource.
"Fighting?" "Per aspera ad astra," put in Louis Akers. "You cannot change a world in a day, without revolution " "But you don't believe that revolution is ever worth while, do you?" "If it would drive starvation and wretchedness from the world, yes." Lily found Louis Akers interesting. Certainly he was very handsome. And after all, why should there be misery and hunger in the world?
Deeply moved, she put it on her finger; but Andreas pointed to the motto, and said with failing utterance: "That is your road and mine my father's motto: Per aspera ad astra. It has guided me to my goal, and you all of you. But the words are in Latin; you understand them?
Or perhaps the change in temperament and nature had occurred in the minds and bodies of that determined handful of refugees as they rested in the frozen cold sleep while their ship bore them through the wide, uncharted reaches of deep space for centuries of Terran time. How long that sleep had lasted the survivors had never known. But those who had awakened on Astra were different.
As he had inscribed upon his flags, his balloons, and his entrance tickets, from which he realised a considerable sum, the ambitious legend, Sic itur ad astra, the following epigram was produced respecting him: From the Field of Mars he took his flight: In a field close by he tumbled; But our money having taken He smiled though sadly shaken, As Sic itur ad astra he mumbled.
Imagine what it will be for the world of thought the true world of human progress the veritable road to the Stars, the itur ad astra of the Ancients if there can come back to us out of the unknown past one who can yield to us the lore stored in the great Library of Alexandria, and lost in its consuming flames.
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