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." "The men are included in the eight million dollars." Then Doctor Obnubile bent his head in bitter reflection.
"Since wealth and civilization admit of as many causes of wars as poverty and barbarism, since the folly and wickedness of men are incurable, there remains but one good action to be done.

The wise man will collect enough dynamite to blow up this planet.

When its fragments fly through space an imperceptible amelioration will be accomplished in the universe and a satisfaction will be given to the universal conscience.

Moreover, this universal conscience does not exist.".