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| 2 | 168 | "Is not a View more quotes about creature">creature beyond death, of immense power and wisdom, worthy to be so spoken of?" I was quiet. |
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| 2 | 165 | "It is not known that they are men," said my father. |
| 2 | 166 | "Then what are they?" "Perhaps gods". |
| 2 | 167 | "You're not serious?" "I am," he said. |
| 2 | 168 | "Is not a creature beyond death, of immense power and wisdom, worthy to be so spoken of?" I was quiet. |
| 2 | 169 | "My speculation, however," said my father, "is that the Priest-Kings are indeed men—men much as we, or humanoid organisms of some type—who possess a science and technology as far beyond our normal ken as that of our own twentieth century would be to the alchemists and astrologers of the medieval universities". |
| 2 | 170 | His supposition seemed plausible to me, for from the very beginning I had understood that in something or someone existed a force and clarity of understanding beside which the customary habits of rationality as I knew them were little more than the tropisms of the unicellular animal. |
| 2 | 171 | Even the technology of the envelope with its patterned thumb-lock, the disorientation of my compass, and the ship that had brought me, unconscious, to this strange world, argued for an incredible grasp of unusual, precise, and manipulable forces. |