Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 197 | On Gor it was not the case that a cavern-chested toothpick could View more quotes about close">close a switch and devastate an army. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 194 | I would have supposed that armor, or chain mail perhaps, would have been a desirable addition to the accouterments of the Gorean warrior, but it had been forbidden by the Priest-Kings. |
| 3 | 195 | A possible hypothesis to explain this is that the Priest-Kings may have wished war to be a biologically selective process in which the weaker and slower perish and fail to reproduce themselves. |
| 3 | 196 | This might account for the relatively primitive weapons allowed to the Men Below the Mountains. |
| 3 | 197 | On Gor it was not the case that a cavern-chested toothpick could close a switch and devastate an army. |
| 3 | 198 | Also, the primitive weapons guaranteed that what selection went on would proceed with sufficient slowness to establish its direction, and alter it, if necessary. |
| 3 | 199 | Besides the spear and sword, the crossbow and longbow were permitted, and these latter weapons perhaps tended to redistribute the probabilities of survival somewhat more broadly than the former. |
| 3 | 200 | It may be, of course, that the Priest-Kings controlled weapons as they did simply because they feared for their own safety. |
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I would have supposed that armor, or chain mail perhaps, would have been a desirable addition to the accouterments of the Gorean warrior, but it had been forbidden by the Priest-Kings.
A possible hypothesis to explain this is that the Priest-Kings may have wished war to be a biologically selective process in which the weaker and slower perish and fail to reproduce themselves.
This might account for the relatively primitive weapons allowed to the Men Below the Mountains.
On Gor it was not the case that a cavern-chested toothpick could close a switch and devastate an army.
Also, the primitive weapons guaranteed that what selection went on would proceed with sufficient slowness to establish its direction, and alter it, if necessary.
Besides the spear and sword, the crossbow and longbow were permitted, and these latter weapons perhaps tended to redistribute the probabilities of survival somewhat more broadly than the former.
It may be, of course, that the Priest-Kings controlled weapons as they did simply because they feared for their own safety.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)