We Are the Monsters

David Innes: Murder to kill a reptilian monster?
Abner Perry: Here they are not monsters, David… Here they are the dominant race—we are the ‘monsters’—the lower orders. In Pellucidar evolution has progressed along different lines than upon the outer earth.

Abner Perry At the Earth's Core (1914) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Context: David proposes killing sleeping reptiles to escape, and Perry objects.

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Source: Chapter V. Slaves

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