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The Law of the Wheel
movement has grown there, as well. But the inhabitants are not prey
to superstition. Their religion has no commanding figure, and its
injunctions against gambling are almost universally honored. How are
we to deal with those centrifugalists?”
“I am working on that,” replied the king. “They have not escaped
my notice. It is indeed the case that we cannot exploit their devotion
to false rotational idols. Therefore we shall break them on a different
sort of wheel.”
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