Sopho replied angrily, "That's a right implicit in any war! If you kill
a soldier--you destroy _all_ his potential progeny--not simply endanger
a few of them. The same fact applies to civilians."
"You do not," Chris answered, "corrupt the children of the survivors
for centuries to come. No." He meditated a moment. "If the salt of the
earth shall lose its savor, wherewith shall ye resavor it?"
Sopho said, "If changing man's environment will not change the evil of
war--"
"Evil?" Chris repeated questioningly. "But does not man always believe
his wars are just? Whatever cause--whichever side?"