A man with a club is a law-maker.

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But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.