| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 19 | 306 | Too, assuming them to be View more quotes about interested">interested, I wondered if there were any independent way of finding out what might be the will of the Priest-Kings, short, that is, of waiting and finding out how things, in fact, came out. |
| 19 | 307 | It was difficult to know, you see, how such a claim, that things proceeded in accordance with the will of the Priest-Kings, might be evaluated. |
| 19 | 308 | To be sure, perhaps a Priest-King might show up and say, "No, that is not what I wanted, at all". |
| 19 | 309 | But how would you know it was a Priest-King? How would it establish its identity? Perhaps it could uproot trees, or kill people, or something. |
| 19 | 310 | But, could Priest-Kings do such things? And, if so, was it only Priest-Kings who could do them? I expected that, here and there on this world, and doubtless on others, similar ceremonies might take place. |
| 19 | 311 | The women of city A, for example, might be led to believe that it was the will of the Priest-Kings that they become the slaves of the men of city B, and the women of city B might be led to believe that it was the will of the Priest-Kings that they become the slaves of the men of city A. |
| 19 | 312 | To be sure, there is nothing inconsistent in this possibility. |