"Then," said Portus Canio, "the priest-kings will know of it".
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"This is the world of the priest-kings," said a man.
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"They have forbidden men such things".
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"There are no priest-kings," said Mirus.
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"If there were priest-kings they would have acted, to enforce their so-called laws.
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But there are no priest-kings, as we see, and the laws have a simple explanation, namely, an attempt to preclude an ever-increasing efficiency of engineered carnage".
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"Which by comparison makes the weapons we carry all the more formidable in their power," said one of the men behind Mirus.
"Then," said Portus Canio, "the priest-kings will know of it".
"This is the world of the priest-kings," said a man.
"They have forbidden men such things".
"There are no priest-kings," said Mirus.
"If there were priest-kings they would have acted, to enforce their so-called laws.
But there are no priest-kings, as we see, and the laws have a simple explanation, namely, an attempt to preclude an ever-increasing efficiency of engineered carnage".
"Which by comparison makes the weapons we carry all the more formidable in their power," said one of the men behind Mirus.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )