{"id":"01KG8AKMFDA9CW2WA9BFDXYM5G","cid":"bafkreigfod34gkyvi67ztusaly54kgzwd3occv4wnkl4keos2f5r5dm4yy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":8349,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.931Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","start_line":8287,"text":"“Point it out, and be blessed, Yoomy.”\r\n\r\n“That is for Vivenza; but the head is dull, where the heart is cold.”\r\n\r\n“My lord,” said Babbalanja, “you have startled us by your kingly\r\nsympathy for suffering; say thou, then, in what wise manner it shall be\r\nrelieved.”\r\n\r\n“That is for Vivenza,” said Media.\r\n\r\n“Mohi, you are old: speak thou.”\r\n\r\n“Let Vivenza speak,” said Mohi.\r\n\r\n“Thus then we all agree; and weeping all but echo hard-hearted Nulli.\r\nTears are not swords and wrongs seem almost natural as rights. For the\r\nrighteous to suppress an evil, is sometimes harder than for others to\r\nuphold it. Humanity cries out against this vast enormity:— not one man\r\nknows a prudent remedy. Blame not, then, the North; and wisely judge\r\nthe South. Ere, as a nation, they became responsible, this thing was\r\nplanted in their midst. Such roots strike deep. Place to-day those\r\nserfs in Dominora; and with them, all Vivenza’s Past;— and serfs, for\r\nmany years, in Dominora, they would be. Easy is it to stand afar and\r\nrail. All men are censors who have lungs. We can say, the stars are\r\nwrongly marshaled. Blind men say the sun is blind. A thousand muscles\r\nwag our tongues; though our tongues were housed, that they might have a\r\nhome. Whose is free from crime, let him cross himself—but hold his\r\ncross upon his lips. That he is not bad, is not of him. Potters’ clay\r\nand wax are all, molded by hands invisible. The soil decides the man.\r\nAnd, ere birth, man wills not to be born here or there. These southern\r\ntribes have grown up with this thing; bond-women were their nurses, and\r\nbondmen serve them still. Nor are all their serfs such wretches as\r\nthose we saw. Some seem happy: yet not as men. Unmanned, they know not\r\nwhat they are. And though, of all the south, Nulli must stand almost\r\nalone in his insensate creed; yet, to all wrong-doers, custom backs the\r\nsense of wrong. And if to every Mardian, conscience be the awarder of\r\nits own doom; then, of these tribes, many shall be found exempted from\r\nthe least penalty of this sin. But sin it is, no less;—a blot, foul as\r\nthe crater-pool of hell; it puts out the sun at noon; it parches all\r\nfertility; and, conscience or no conscience—ere he die—let every master\r\nwho wrenches bond-babe from mother, that the nipple tear; unwreathes\r\nthe arms of sisters; or cuts the holy unity in twain; till apart fall\r\nman and wife, like one bleeding body cleft:—let that master thrice\r\nshrive his soul; take every sacrament; on his bended knees give up the\r\nghost;—yet shall he die despairing; and live again, to die forever\r\ndamned. The future is all hieroglyphics. Who may read? But, methinks\r\nthe great laggard Time must now march up apace, and somehow befriend\r\nthese thralls. It can not be, that misery is perpetually entailed;\r\nthough, in a land proscribing primogeniture, the first-born and last of\r\nHamo’s tribe must still succeed to all their sires’ wrongs. Yes.\r\nTime—all-healing Time—Time, great Philanthropist!—Time must befriend\r\nthese thralls!”\r\n\r\n“Oro grant it!” cried Yoomy “and let Mardi say, amen!”\r\n\r\n“Amen! amen! amen!” cried echoes echoing echoes.\r\n\r\nWe traversed many of these southern vales; but as in Dominora,—so,\r\nthroughout Vivenza, North and South,—Yillah harbored not.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJTP2P1B5NBRJY2DM0A6T","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKMFAPGYCTJ9ZRE7K6CKS","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:10.733Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:26.074Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}