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1 The Spaniards came not like the Puritans, as artisans and tillers of the soil intent on founding new homes, but as military conquerors, requiring a race of helots to toil for them.

2 The Mosquito Indians were the helots of the Buccaneers; they employed them to catch fish, and their vessels had generally a small canoe, kept for their use, in which they might strike tortoise or manitee.

3 Are we alone among the nations created to be slaves and helots?

4 The field labourers were made to toil from three in the morning till an hour after sundown; even the Sunday was no day of rest for these unfortunate helots.

5 Its fathers have ground the faces of the helots; they have fought and lusted, they have suffered contumely and stripes.

6 In other words, the owners of these useless helots have hoodwinked the slave emancipators by representing their decrepit human property as defunct, while they substitute fresh importations in their places.

7 Adolescent Spartans in training would even be dispatched to simply murder any helots they encountered.

8 On all hands Mr. Drury could see the evidence of a master conspiracy against the farmer, who was to become the helot of civilization.

9 Will ye be men—or helots and outcasts?

10 Experience will perhaps teach those unwashed Democrats how degrading was their submission to slavocracy, which reduced them to the condition of political helots.

11 But the other more important logical point is that if we’re all starving helots without jobs or cash, then who the heck are the capitalists going to sell the production of the robots to?

12 A man who conceives and writes a great book, my friend, has done 11 more work than all the helots that laboured on these pyramidal futilities.

13 Adolescent Spartans in training would even be dispatched to sim-ply murder any helots they encountered.

14 His helot has unlocked the world behind appearance and made him free of the Spirits of Natural Fact who abide there.

15 Are we not arraigned at the tribunal of civilization, by the helots of despotism?

16 It matters not whether these things are produced by happy smiling members of workers’ cooperatives or helot slaves of the capitalist oppressors.

17 Christ would make you, not a free man, a hero, and a warrior, but a hireling, a submissive beast of burden, a helot, a nobody.

18 A whistle from their leader collected his helots again, and so they marched straight from the square to the gates of the castle.

19 Three or four Thespians were still breathing, a few more of the helots who had attended Leonidas’s Spartans, but not one of the three hundred but seemed dead, and that too with many wounds.

20 Danger of a helot revolt led Sparta to become a military state.

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