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| 2 | 17 | And if I should find the View more quotes about object">object—why should I not myself destroy it, and destroy thereby the race of Priest-Kings, giving this world to my own kind, to men, to do with as they pleased, unrestricted by the laws and decrees of Priest-Kings that so limited their development, their technology? Once I had spoken to a Priest-King of these things. |
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| 2 | 14 | The object—the egg—might be destroyed before it could be delivered to them. |
| 2 | 15 | It might already have been destroyed. |
| 2 | 16 | Only that the egg was the egg of Priest-Kings gave me occasion to suspect, to hope, that somehow within that mysterious, presumably ovoid sphere, if it still existed, quiescent but latent, there might be life. |
| 2 | 17 | And if I should find the object—why should I not myself destroy it, and destroy thereby the race of Priest-Kings, giving this world to my own kind, to men, to do with as they pleased, unrestricted by the laws and decrees of Priest-Kings that so limited their development, their technology? Once I had spoken to a Priest-King of these things. |
| 2 | 18 | He had said to me, "Man is a larl to man; if we permitted him, he would be so to Priest-Kings as well". |
| 2 | 19 | "But man must be free," I had said. |
| 2 | 20 | "Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the Priest-King, adding, "Man is not yet rational". |