Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery

FULTRIA'S SPEECH. "Best Man of our race! you have been told that it would be barbarous in us to exterminate the corrupt and contaminating invaders--should we not be more barbarous to submit to depravement and degradation? "You have been told that by using the engine I have invented, you would take an unjustifiable advantage of our foes--do they not take unjustifiable advantage by employing their superior skill in the diabolical arts of physical warfare and moral turpitude, to prostrate the strength and destroy the virtue of our people? "You have heard it urged, that the practices of civilized men do not justify the use of such means of warfare, and that the adoption of them would be the extreme of inhumanity. What then shall we do? Shall we permit the wicked to gratify their cupidity by plundering the feeble and devastating the defenceless, with little danger of hardship to themselves, and many allurements of advantage from success, and thus perpetuate war by rendering the pursuit of it safe and attractive? --"No, Sir; it is most humane to cut off the instigators and performers of inhuman deeds. "I would show my abhorrence of war by rendering it too horrible to be encountered. I would abolish war by ensuring inevitable destruction to all who engaged in it I would utterly destroy the invaders that none may hereafter dare to draw the sword for invasion. Let all who take the sword perish by the sword, and war will be known no more."