the fatal false step which, once taken, would thrust her down into the terrible slavery of appetite and hate and economics and government which our race knows so well.

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft under…”

“Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens t…”

“We teach them not to notice the different sense of the possessive pronoun .. . …”

“Are the gods not just?""Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?”