Chapter 35

“There will be no cessation of evils for the sons of men,

till either those who are pursuing a right and true philosophy

receive sovereign power in the States,

or those in power in the States

by some dispensation of providence

become true philosophers.”

-Plato

The prison was a three metre by three metre space, cut into the earth and walled by solid rock. A barred window in one wall looked out from the cliff-face of the Sinulu’s home onto the valley and lake below. The lake twinkled in the moonlight, stretching away towards the river that lay somewhere in the invisible distance. A heavy wooden door stood opposite the window, with a s...

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