"You're all blind! You don't see what you're doing; you don't even see what you've done to this peaceful place here.
You've filled it full of thoughts of fury and killing and massacre--" "Why, no," said Ramsey.

"It was those Dutch did that to us; and, besides, there's more to it than you--" "No, there isn't," she interrupted.

"It's just the old brutal spirit that nations inherit from the time they were only tribes; it's the tribe spirit, and an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

It's those things and the love of fighting--men have always loved to fight.

Civilization hasn't taken it out of them; men still have the brute in them that loves to fight!" "I don't think so," said Ramsey.