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| 14 | 378 | View more quotes about might">Might there not be a reason why grass is green, and the sky blue? Might there not be a reason for the movement of the winds and the rotation of the night sky, and a reason, say, why men are as they are, and women as they are? I suddenly leapt to the beast whose neck I had broken. |
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| 14 | 375 | Now, I supposed, the urt people, their children and such, would simply grow up with the packs, thinking perhaps that this was just the way things had been, inexplicably, or naturally, from time immemorial. |
| 14 | 376 | Yet is it not likely, I pondered, there would once have been a reason, or reasons. |
| 14 | 377 | Surely it is not always to be assumed that it is a mere inexplicable fact, a simple, brute given, something not to be inquired into, that things are as they now are. |
| 14 | 378 | Might there not be a reason why grass is green, and the sky blue? Might there not be a reason for the movement of the winds and the rotation of the night sky, and a reason, say, why men are as they are, and women as they are? I suddenly leapt to the beast whose neck I had broken. |
| 14 | 379 | I looked to the men on the hill. |
| 14 | 380 | They had not yet released the sleen. |
| 14 | 381 | I tore away a tusk, breaking it loose, from the side of the jaw of the dead animal. |