Whether we can kill this Food or not, most assuredly we can kill your sons! You reckon too much on the things of yesterday, on the happenings of a mere score of years, on one battle.

You have no sense of the slow course of history.

I offer this convention for the sake of lives, not because it can change the inevitable end.

If you think that your poor two dozen of Giants can resist all the forces of our people and of all the alien peoples who will come to our aid; if you think you can change Humanity at a blow, in a single generation, and alter the nature and stature of Man--" He flung out an arm.

"Go to them now, Sir.