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Marlenus set the Home Stone on the ground before him and drew his sword, which he laid across his knees; he looked like some remote and terrible god of war. - (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 14, Sentence #37)

Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution and cruelty that cloud our lives—I dreamed that there might arise from the ashes of the conquests of Ar a new world, a world of honor and law, of power and justice". "Your justice," I said. "Mine, if you like," he agreed. Marlenus set the Home Stone on the ground before him and drew his sword, which he laid across his knees; he looked like some remote and terrible god of war. "Do you know, Tarnsman," he asked, "that there is no justice without the sword?" He smiled down on me grimly. "This is a terrible truth," he said, "and so consider it carefully". He paused. - (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 14)