>>Bleah. If that's supposed to be an agenda to better mankind, I'd

>On an individual basis, Sisters and Reverend Mothers are wise and
>compassionate healers and teachers; as for their agenda, it's clear
>that their control over it isn't as absolute as the kind of
>organization you're describing would have to have. Otherwise, they
>would have arranged for Paul's death and ordered Jessica to have a
>daughter.

Maybe I read something into the book that wasn't there, but I thought that was -precisely- what they did... arranging House Atredies' move to Arrakis and the assassination of Paul and his father. They certainly had the influence to do it.

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