Thanks! This is the line I most wanted to see Dejah Thoris deliver, but somehow I think the anti-communist message was left behind....
“Why, oh why will you not learn to live in amity with your fellows, must you ever go on down the ages to your final extinction but little above the plane of the dumb brutes that serve you! A people without written language, without art, without homes, without love; the victim of eons of the horrible community idea. Owning everything in common, even to your women and children, has resulted in your owning nothing in common. You hate each other as you hate all else except yourselves. Come back to the ways of our common ancestors, come back to the light of kindliness and fellowship. The way is open to you, you will find the hands of the red men stretched out to aid you. Together we may do still more to regenerate our dying planet.” *Dejah Thoris
Yup. That’s a great quote, and a true sentiment. I love Burrough’s writing style. I like reading older books because they don’t talk down to the reader. Writers who consider their readers more literate than a ten year old appeal to me.