You stop there, go back to your starting point, and take off againThe truth of it is that from man's very inception there has been one great vision, blurred first by the exigencies and cruelties of nature, and then, as nature began to be conquered, by the second great cloak -- economic fear and economic strivingThat particular vision has been muddied and diverted, but we're coming to a time when our techniques will enable us to achieve it He exhaled his smoke slowly"There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angelActually man is in transit between brute and God
"Man's deepest urge is omnipotence?"
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Hearn fingered his collar"I'd say your deepest urge is omnipotence, that's all
"And yours too, whether you'll admit it or not
Hearn's sharp voice softened a little with irony"What moral precepts am I supposed to draw from all this?"
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Hearn was looking at his hands"We're not in the future yet
"You can consider the Army, Robert, as a preview of the future
Hearn looked at his watch"It's time to go to chow Outside the tent the earth was almost white in the glare of the overhead sun
"You'll go to chow when I release you Hearn scraped his foot slowly against the floor, stared at him quietly, a little doubtfully
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"It was simple enough for you, wasn't it? You resented some of my actions, and you indulged a childish tantrumBut it's the kind of thing I don't care to permit The General held his half-smoked cigarette in his hand, and waved it slightly as he spoke"If I were to throw this down on the floor, would you pick it up?"
"I think I'd tell you to go to hellI've indulged you too longYou really can't believe I'm serious, can you? Supposed you understood that if you didn't pick it up, I would court-martial you, and you might have five years in a prison stockade
"I wonder if you have the power for that?"
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"Don't you think that's a bit steep?"
"It's tremendously steep, it has to beThere was the old myth of divine interventionYou blasphemed, and a lightning bolt struck youThat was a little steep tooIf punishment is at all proportionate to the offense, then power becomes wateredThe only way you generate the proper attitude of awe and obedience is through immense and disproportionate powerWith this in mind, how do you think you would react?"
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