<i> Many men are born outside their cuntury; Esau Cairn was born outside his epoch... I never knew a man of such intelligence so little-fitted for adjustment in a machine-made civilization... Cairn was not a great sluggish lethargic giant as so many powerful men are; he was vibrant with a fierce life, ablaze with a dynamic energy. Carried away by the lust of combat, he forgot to control his powers, and the result was broken limbs or fractured skulls for his opponents.