The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
A man with a club is a law-maker.
And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.
I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.