Perhaps even his statement that there was no purpose to the Earthmen's researches made sense-for could the codification of the history of a dying race mean much to its last members?
"Warlord of Kor"
Terry Gene Carr
Probably the codification of their history would prove useful to the aliens too; they had never arranged the race memory into a very coherent order themselves.
"Warlord of Kor"
Terry Gene Carr
It would be a great advantage to have frequent revisions or codification of the statutes on a subject, not involving a change of substance, but merely a simplification of form.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell