Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
11
705
I did not know at that time but this indicated he was of the caste of physicians.
11
706
That is a high caste.
11
707
If I had known he was of high caste I might have been a great deal more frightened than I was.
11
708
Most Goreans take caste very seriously.
11
709
It is apparently one of the socially stabilizing forces on Gor.
11
710
It tends to reduce the dislocations, disappointments and tragedies inherent in more mobile structures, in which men are taught that they are failures if they do not manage to make large amounts of money or excel in one of a small number of prestigious professions.
11
711
The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated men, to practice other hundreds of arts the survival and maintenance of which are important to a superior civilization.
I did not know at that time but this indicated he was of the caste of physicians.
That is a high caste.
If I had known he was of high caste I might have been a great deal more frightened than I was.
Most Goreans take caste very seriously.
It is apparently one of the socially stabilizing forces on Gor.
It tends to reduce the dislocations, disappointments and tragedies inherent in more mobile structures, in which men are taught that they are failures if they do not manage to make large amounts of money or excel in one of a small number of prestigious professions.
The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated men, to practice other hundreds of arts the survival and maintenance of which are important to a superior civilization.
- (Dancer of Gor, Chapter )