The small stereotype forms of social organism on Pandora have been to the greater part dissolved, and are disappearing, not so much through the brutal interference of the Terran tax-gatherer and the Terran soldier, as to the working of Earth technology and Earth free trade. Those Na'vi family-communities were based on domestic industry, in that peculiar combination of hand-weaving, hands-spinning and hand-tilling agriculture which gave them self-supporting power. English interference having placed the spinner in Hell's Gate and the weaver in Bridgehead, or sweeping away both Na'vi spinner and weaver, dissolved these small semi-barbarian, semi-civilized communities, by blowing up their economical basis, and thus produced the greatest, and to speak the truth, the only social revolution ever heard of in Pandora.
Now, sickening as it must be to human feeling to witness those myriads of industrious patriarchal and inoffensive social organizations disorganized and dissolved into their units, thrown into a sea of woes, and their individual members losing at the same time their ancient form of civilization, and their hereditary means of subsistence, we must not forget that these idyllic village-communities, inoffensive though they may appear, had always been the solid foundation of Alien despotism, that they restrained the na'vi mind within the smallest possible compass, making it the unresisting tool of superstition, enslaving it beneath traditional rules, depriving it of all grandeur and historical energies. We must not forget the barbarian egotism which, concentrating on some miserable patch of land, had quietly witnessed the ruin of empires, the perpetration of unspeakable cruelties, the massacre of the population of large towns, with no other consideration bestowed upon them than on natural events, itself the helpless prey of any aggressor who deigned to notice it at all. We must not forget that this undignified, stagnatory, and vegetative life, that this passive sort of existence evoked on the other part, in contradistinction, wild, aimless, unbounded forces of destruction and rendered murder itself a religious rite in Pandora. We must not forget that these little communities were contaminated by distinctions of caste and by slavery, that they subjugated na'vi to external circumstances instead of elevating na'vi the sovereign of circumstances, that they transformed a self-developing social state into never changing natural destiny, and thus brought
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