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expediency with mercy. Even now we are burning and searing the places
their shells hit yesterday. We can get it under. Trust me we shall get
it under. But in that way, without cruelty, without injustice--"
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And suppose the Children do not agree?"
For the first time Caterham looked Redwood fully in the face.
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They must!"
I don't think they will."
Why should they not agree?" he asked, in richly toned amazement.
Suppose they don't?"
What can it be but war? We cannot have the thing go on. We cannot. Sir.
Have you scientific men no imagination? Have you no mercy? We cannot
have our world trampled under a growing herd of such monsters and
monstrous growths as your Food has made. We cannot and we cannot! I ask
you, Sir, what can it be but war? And remember--this that has happened
is only a beginning! This was a skirmish. A mere affair of police.
Believe me, a mere affair of police. Do not be cheated by perspective,
by the immediate bigness of these newer things. Behind us is the
nation--is humanity. Behind the thousands who have died there are
millions. Were it not for the fear of bloodshed, Sir, behind our first
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