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to light what the Europeans did. Otherwise they'd never have written it.

accident and a riot. The plant was shut down for/

Do you know that before the Europeans came the Incas were a big population--I forgot how many--and they all had more than enough to eat, every day and in every season--and it's just because they had enough to eat that they could think of other things.

EDWARD

Oh yea? So maybe I was in it! How the hell did I know it was her old man?

DARIUS STARK Watch yourself, Ed.

These scientists described public works, and beautiful handicrafts and architecture as India and China had. One of the scientists is an agriculture specialist and he said the Incas were more advanced than the Europeans. But they were peaceful. And that's why they lost. They didn't know how to fight, and they lived in the same world as the Europeans. ..

EDWARD Those bastards were wild--they wanted to close down the mines and push all the whites into the sea!

What the hell was an Indian doing in South Africa anyway? Christ I should have beat him until he'd nothing more to say/

. . . in the same world as the Europeans who didn't know anything other than

Stealing, Torturing and Killing!

HAROLD Shut up, Edward! Shut up! Can't you open your mouth without a morbid discharge of stinking bigotry?