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themselves the Government, because ..."
GENERAL. What insolence!
ADJUTANT. "Because those demands are criminal and wicked. They demand of
me that I should enter the army, and learn and prepare to commit murder,
though this is forbidden both in the Old and the New Testaments, and
above all by my conscience. To the third question ..."
Enter Colonel followed by Clerk. The General shakes hands with
Colonel.
COLONEL. You are reading the evidence?
GENERAL. Yes. Unpardonably insolent language. Well, go on.
ADJUTANT. "To the third question: What induced me to use offensive words
before the Court, my answer is: that I was induced to do so by the wish
to serve God, and in order to expose the fraud carried on in His name.
This desire, I hope to retain till I die, and therefore ..."
GENERAL. Come; that's enough; one can't listen to all this balderdash.
The fact is all this sort of thing must be eradicated, and action taken
to prevent the people being perverted. [To Colonel] Have you spoken to
him?
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