The Eleventh Commandment Author:Lester del Rey It was a remarkable world -- for the Church and the State had become one -- on supreme Authority that encouraged, indeed, ordered its people to breed, and breed, and breed again. And punished if they did not . . . But few fought the Authority. For the conceptual rites were so inspiring. And not at all sinful. No, indeed. The only sin was not hav... more »ing children. For that sin, a man - or a woman - could die.« less