Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 198 | Also, the primitive View more quotes about weapons">weapons guaranteed that what selection went on would proceed with sufficient slowness to establish its direction, and alter it, if necessary. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 195 | A possible hypothesis to explain this is that the Priest-Kings may have wished war to be a biologically selective process in which the weaker and slower perish and fail to reproduce themselves. |
| 3 | 196 | This might account for the relatively primitive weapons allowed to the Men Below the Mountains. |
| 3 | 197 | On Gor it was not the case that a cavern-chested toothpick could close a switch and devastate an army. |
| 3 | 198 | Also, the primitive weapons guaranteed that what selection went on would proceed with sufficient slowness to establish its direction, and alter it, if necessary. |
| 3 | 199 | Besides the spear and sword, the crossbow and longbow were permitted, and these latter weapons perhaps tended to redistribute the probabilities of survival somewhat more broadly than the former. |
| 3 | 200 | It may be, of course, that the Priest-Kings controlled weapons as they did simply because they feared for their own safety. |
| 3 | 201 | I doubted that they stood against one another, man to man, sword to sword, in their holy mountains, putting their principles of selection to the test in their own cases. |
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A possible hypothesis to explain this is that the Priest-Kings may have wished war to be a biologically selective process in which the weaker and slower perish and fail to reproduce themselves.
This might account for the relatively primitive weapons allowed to the Men Below the Mountains.
On Gor it was not the case that a cavern-chested toothpick could close a switch and devastate an army.
Also, the primitive weapons guaranteed that what selection went on would proceed with sufficient slowness to establish its direction, and alter it, if necessary.
Besides the spear and sword, the crossbow and longbow were permitted, and these latter weapons perhaps tended to redistribute the probabilities of survival somewhat more broadly than the former.
It may be, of course, that the Priest-Kings controlled weapons as they did simply because they feared for their own safety.
I doubted that they stood against one another, man to man, sword to sword, in their holy mountains, putting their principles of selection to the test in their own cases.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)