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Were his power derived from the sun near which he is operating, he would not have said suns. It was more than one?" "It was, oh Sthanto," replied the scout positively. "His power is unreasonable. I doubt that he gave the true explanation. It may well have been that he did not trust the Venonians. I would not, for all their warless ways.
But I think that a second race holds part of that Universe, for several times we have read in their minds the thought of the 'Mighty Warless Ones of Venone." "And how do you plan to destroy so large a planet as these are?" asked Morey, indicating the telectroscope screen. "Watch and see!" said Arcot. They shot suddenly toward the distant sun, and as it expanded, planets came into view.
Alas! in this he did not prove himself a true prophet, although it must be conceded that many wars have been averted or shortened by means of the telegraph, and there are some who hope that a warless age is even now being conceived in the womb of time. On July 18, 1855, he writes to his good friend Dr.
"Robed in universal harvest up to either pole she smiles, Universal ocean softly washing all her warless isles." Any one, however, who has lived with discerning thought through the opening years of the twentieth century, must be aware that something has happened to chasten and subdue these wildly enthusiastic hopes of the mid-Victorian age. Others beside the "gloomy dean" of St.
They tell me that this planet's going to be a fine place to live. Quiet and peaceful, and serene.... Gwenlyn will be living on Tralee, most likely, and I don't want to be underfoot. I'll probably settle down here. Retire, you know." "Splendid," said the king, politely, his mind occupied with the prospect of a warless future.
When, for example, one compares the immense amount of optimistic expectancy about a warless world with the small amount of radical thinking as to what really is the matter with us, he may well be amazed at the unfounded regnancy of the idea of progress.
"Follow that bunch, Morey, and I'll tell you about it. Set it and she'll hold nicely. We have a long way to go, and those are slow freighters, accompanied by one Cruiser. "Those men," he began, "are men of Venone. You remember Thett's records said something of the Mighty Warless Ones of Venone? Those are they.
It is really quite idle to dream of a warless world in which States are still absolutely free to annoy one another with tariffs, with the blocking and squeezing of trade routes, with the ill-treatment of immigrants and travelling strangers, and between which there is no means of settling boundary disputes.
And again: "Devanampiya Piadasi desires that in all places men of all religions may abide, for they all desire purity of mind and mastery over the senses." Well; for nine and twenty years he held that vast empire warless; even though it included within its boundaries many restless and savage tribes.
Two centuries later it was worked out by one of their scientists, and the Warless Ones had a War of defense. Their small fleet of cruisers, designed for rescue work and for clearing space lanes of wrecks and asteroids, was destroyed instantly, their world was protected only by the ray screen, which the Thessians did not have, and by the fact that they could build more cruisers.
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