Gurney Halleck, Jessica and Paul, Leto II-had to overcome the imminent danger of being lulled for his water, as many others in fact were Fremen as a language expresses this extreme individualism in a myriad of sayings hill ahad yalumm at nar h qursu (everybody draws the coals closer to his own loaf), man galabakbat hafiraglab ub al tctnqtyya(he who beat you in digging, beat him in pruning) -that is to say, m pruning the fruits of the other's labors and most telling of all, and al-diq la ashu (m bad times there are no brothers) Into this milieu came Lady Jessica, instituting a new era of Bene Gessertt-inspired linguistic awareness among the desert peoples LETO n To understand the nature of Leto H's rebellion in philosophy it is necessary to understand one more facet of the Bene Gessent teaching When the Bene Gessent analyzed syntax, they used a system called generative grammar a system alread} ancient when the empire was founded It was adapted by the B G as much for its philosophy as for its usefulness in explaining linguistic phenomena Its basic tenet was that the most ordinary speaker of any human language was a storehouse of creativity, capable of deriving an infinite number of unique sentences from a limited number of words and grammatical structures These words and structures were combined and changed according to a finite number of rules, some of which were called transfer mations The analogy to genetics is obvious a limited number of genetic elements are combined according to the rules which gov ern DNA into a nearly limitless number of structures each differing one from the other Of the billions on billions of people in the inhabited worlds no two are identical From the name of the grammar the B G took the name of their science of generative genetics Leto n, however, abhorred the Bene Gessent and all then" works How much of this hatred was caused by his sufferings at the hands of Gurney Halleck, directed by Jessica, will probably never be known, but the fact of the hatred cannot be doubted Hence though Leto was forced to use much of the B G methods and terminology in his own breeding program, his dependence on his sources was a cause of chagrin to him, and he lost no opportunity lo deni