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    Blessed Are the Meek
    Blessed Are the Meek
    Blessed Are the Meek
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    Blessed Are the Meek

    By G. C. Edmondson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Blessed Are the Meek - G. C. Edmondson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Blessed Are the Meek, by G.C. Edmondson

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      Title: Blessed Are the Meek

      Author: G.C. Edmondson

      Illustrator: Freas

      Release Date: December 7, 2007 [EBook #23762]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLESSED ARE THE MEEK ***

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      Transcriber's Note: This e-text was produced from Astounding, September, 1955. Extensive research did not reveal any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      BLESSED ARE THE MEEK

      Every strength is a weakness, and every weakness is a strength. And when the Strong start smashing each other's strength ... the Weak may turn out to be, instead, the Wise.

      BY G. C. EDMONDSON

      Illustrated by Freas

      The strangers landed just before dawn, incinerating a good li of bottom land in the process. Their machines were already busily digging up the topsoil. The Old One watched, squinting into the morning sun. He sighed, hitched up his saffron robes and started walking down toward the strangers.

      Griffin turned, not trying to conceal his excitement. "You're

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