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| 24 | 480 | But View more quotes about surely">surely she must be free! But what if she were a true slave, as she had indicated? But she could not be a true slave. |
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| 24 | 477 | Is man so foolish, so naive and habit-bound, so fundamentally irrational, so ready to believe anything that he might be taught, no matter how absurd, that he cannot understand that torture cannot be truth. |
| 24 | 478 | The test for truth, surely, must not be pain, misery and frustration, but happiness and joy. |
| 24 | 479 | "Master," she whimpered. |
| 24 | 480 | But surely she must be free! But what if she were a true slave, as she had indicated? But she could not be a true slave. |
| 24 | 481 | She was from Earth! But what if, even though she were from Earth, she were a true slave, as in accord with her own avowals? Could such a thing, she from Earth, be possible, even thinkable? I scarcely dared even consider this possibility, for then she, a slave, could be mine! I determined, cruelly, to make test of the matter. |
| 24 | 482 | I untied her hands. |
| 24 | 483 | I waited then for her to shrink back in terror, to, feeling her way, try to retreat to the far wall, perhaps cowering there, at my mercy. |