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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)

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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".
2 21 But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for priest-kings, a new stock, a new beginning; a readiness to relinquish his place in an old world to prepare a mansion for the new; to have and love a child, so to speak, for Misk, who is a priest-King, neither male nor female, yet can love.
2 22 I recalled a windy night in the shadow of the Sardar when we had spoken of strange things, and I had left him and come down the hill, and had asked the leader of those with whom I had traveled the way to the Land of the Wagon Peoples.
2 23 I had found it.
2 24 The dust rolled nearer, the ground seemed more to move than ever.
He had said to me, "Man is a larl to man; if we permitted him, he would be so to priest-kings as well". "But man must be free," I had said. "Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the priest-King, adding, "Man is not yet rational". But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for priest-kings, a new stock, a new beginning; a readiness to relinquish his place in an old world to prepare a mansion for the new; to have and love a child, so to speak, for Misk, who is a priest-King, neither male nor female, yet can love. I recalled a windy night in the shadow of the Sardar when we had spoken of strange things, and I had left him and come down the hill, and had asked the leader of those with whom I had traveled the way to the Land of the Wagon Peoples. I had found it. The dust rolled nearer, the ground seemed more to move than ever. - (Nomads of Gor, Chapter )