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Rh "He called their attention to the fact that of all the race of Minunians the people of the city of Trohanadalmakus were the most ancient and that for ages there had been no infusion of new blood, since they were not permitted to mate out­side their own caste, while their slaves, recruited from all the cities of Minuni, had inter-bred, with the result that they had become strong and robust while their masters, through inbreeding, had grown correspondingly weaker."

"He exhorted Klamataamorosal to issue a de­cree elevating to the warrior class any slave that was chosen as mate by either a man or woman of that class, and further to obligate each and every warrior to select at least one mate from among their slaves. At first, of course, the objections to so iconoclastic a suggestion were loud and bitter; but Klamataamorosal was quick to sense the wisdom of the idea and not only did he issue the decree, but he was the first to espouse a slave woman, and what the king did all were anxious to do also."

"The very next generation showed the wisdom of the change and each succeeding generation has more than fulfilled the expectations of Klamataa­morosal until now you see in the people of Tro­hanadalmakus the most powerful and warlike of the Minunians."

"Our ancient enemy, Veltopismakus, was the next city to adopt the new order, having learned of it through slaves taken in raids upon our own