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And to-morrow?"
We will scatter the Food; we will saturate the world with the Food."
Suppose they come to terms?"
Our terms are the Food. It is not as though little and great could live
together in any perfection of compromise. It is one thing or the other.
What right have parents to say, My child shall have no light but the
light I have had, shall grow no greater than the greatness to which I
have grown? Do I speak for you, Brothers?"
Assenting murmurs answered him.
"And to the children who will be women as well as to the children who
will be men," said a voice from the darkness.
"Even more so--to be mothers of a new race ..."
"But for the next generation there must be great and little," said
Redwood, with his eyes on his son's face.
"For many generations. And the little will hamper the great and the
great press upon the little. So it must needs be, father."
"There will be conflict."
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