Chapter 104
Amadiro, up to and including a guarantee of succession to the headship. Yet it may be that Dr. Mandamus hesitates to bring about Earth's defeat and humiliation unless he felt no kinship to its people. Descent from Arthur Bret of Earth would inhibit him. The denial of that descent frees him to act and that makes him jubilant." Sach said, "You mean Dr. Mandamus is a man of conscience?" "Conscience?" "It is a word human beings sometimes use. I have gathered that it is applied to a person who adheres to rules of behavior that force him to act in ways that oppose his immediate self-interest. If Dr. Mandamus feels that he cannot allow himself to advance at the expense of those with whom he is distantly connected, I imagine him to be a man of conscience. I have thought much of such things, fr
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