Trust me we shall get it under.

But in that way, without cruelty, without injustice--" "And suppose the Children do not agree ?" For the first time Caterham looked Redwood fully in the face.
"They must!" "I don't think they will." "Why should they not agree ?" he asked, in richly toned amazement.
"Suppose they don't ?" "What can it be but war?
We cannot have the thing go on.

We cannot.

Sir.
Have you scientific men _no_ imagination?
Have you no mercy?
We cannot have our world trampled under a growing herd of such monsters and monstrous growths as your Food has made.

We cannot and we cannot! I ask you, Sir, what can it be but war?
And remember--this that has happened is only a beginning! _This_ was a skirmish.