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“But you can’t go,” cried Sir Ector, “not without a month’s notice.” “Can’t I?” replied Merlyn, taking up the position always used by philosophers who propose to dematerialize.
“I never could stomach these nationalists,” he exclaimed. “The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.”
for few people can hate so bitterly and so self-righteously as the members of a ruling caste which is being dispossessed.
At twenty-two, the age of thirty seems to be the verge of senility.
“You will find,” he explained, “that when the kings are bullies who believe in force, the people are bullies too. If I don’t stand for law, I won’t have law among my people.
