The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire series Book 2)
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- Title: The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire series Book 2)
- Author: Isaac Asimov
- Book URL: https://amazon.com/dp/B00FO6HUWQ?tag=malvaonlin-20
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- Last Updated on: Friday, May 31, 2019
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What would be considered crime on other worlds was virtually non-existent here in the dark. The poor were at hand but had been picked clean, and the rich were strictly out of reach.
How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself?
So then, to end the misuse of force, only one solution was left, force itself.
Certainly social injustices existed here and there. Certainly they seemed sometimes impossible to stomach. But who could imagine that such injustice could be solved on any scale less than Galactic? First, there must be an end to war and national rivalry and only then could one turn to the internal miseries that, after all, had external conflict as their chief cause.
Junz said, “In skin pigmentation. They are unusually pale. We are unusually dark. It means something. It binds us together. It gives us something in common. It seems to me our ancestors must have had long histories of being different, even of being excluded from the social majority. We are unfortunate whites and darks, brothers in being different.”
How quickly one could grow conscious of hunger.
A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!