Kings and emperors journeyed to
Palgrave Island, saw the wonders of Energon, and went away, with the
fear of death in their hearts, to abdicate thrones and crowns and
hereditary licenses. When Goliah spoke to politicians (so-called
"statesmen"), they obeyed . . . or died. He dictated universal
reforms, dissolved refractory parliaments, and to the great
conspiracy that was formed of mutinous money lords and captains of
industry he sent his destroying angels. "The time is past for
fooling," he told them. "You are anachronisms. You stand in the way
of humanity. To the scrap-heap with you." To those that protested,
and they were many, he said: "This is no time for logomachy. You
can argue for centuries. It is what you have done in the past. I
have no time for argument. Get out of the way."
With the exception of putting a stop to war, and of indicating the
broad general plan, Goliah did nothing. By putting the fear of death
into the hearts of those that sat in the high places and obstructed
progress, Goliah made the opportunity for the unshackled intelligence
of the best social thinkers of the world to exert itself.
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