Creighton

• “Hope clouds observation.” — Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 novel

‘Were there a species of creatures intermingled with men, which

though rational, were possessed of such inferior strength, both of body

and mind, that they were incapable of all resistance, and could never,

upon the highest provocation, make us feel the effects of their

resentment; the necessary consequence, I think, is that we should be

bound by the