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which our delegates have not been or may not be able to control properly: Sol III, Rigel IV, Velantia III,
and Palain VII. All four, you will observe, are in the other galaxy. No trouble whatever has developed in
our own.

“Of these four, the first requires drastic and immediate personal attention. Its people, in the brief interval
since our previous general survey, have developed nuclear energy and have fallen into a cultural pattern
which does not conform in any respect to the basic principles laid down by us long since. Our deputies
there, thinking erroneously that they could handle matters without reporting fully to or calling for help
upon the next higher operating echelon, must be disciplined sharply. Failure, from whatever cause, can
not be tolerated.

“Gharlane, as Master Number Two, you will assume control of Sol III immediately. This Circle now
authorizes and instructs you to take whatever steps may prove necessary to restore order upon that
planet. Examine carefully this data concerning the other three worlds which may very shortly become
troublesome. Is it your thought that one or more others of this Circle should be assigned to work with
you, to be sure that these untoward developments are suppressed?”

“It is not, Your Supremacy,” that worthy decided, after a time of study. “Since the peoples in question
are as yet of low intelligence; since one form of flesh at a time is all that will have to be energized; and
since the techniques will be essentially similar; I can handle all four more efficiently alone than with the
help or cooperation of others. If I read this data correctly, there will be need of only the most elementary
precaution in the employment of mental force, since of the four races, only the Velantians have even a
rudimentary knowledge of its uses. Right?”

“We so read the data.” Surprisingly enough, the Innermost Circle agreed unanimously.

“Go, then. When finished, report in full.”

“I go, All-Highest. I shall render a complete and conclusive report.”

2. ARISIA “We, the Elder Thinkers in fusion, are spreading in public view, for study and full
discussion, a visualization of the relationships existing and to exist between Civilization and its
irreconcilable and implacable foe. Several - of our younger members, particularly Eukonidor, who has
just attained Watchmanship, have requested instruction in this matter. Being as yet immature, their
visualizations do not show clearly why Nedanillor, Kriedigan, Drounli, and Brolenteen, either singly or in
fusion, have in the past performed certain acts and have not performed certain others; or that the future
actions of those Moulders of Civilization will be similarly constrained.
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“This visualization, while more complex, more complete, and more detailed than the one set up by our
forefathers at the time of the Coalescence, agrees with it in every essential. The five basics remain
unchanged. First: the Eddorians can be overcome only by mental force. Second: the magnitude of the
required force is such that its only possible generator is such an organization as the Galactic Patrol
toward which we have been and are working. Third: since no Arisian or any fusion of Arisians will ever
be able to spear-head that force, it was and is necessary to develop a race of mentality sufficient to
perform that task. Fourth: this new race, having been instrumental: in removing the menace of Eddore,
will as a matter of course displace the Arisians as Guardians of Civilization. Fifth: the Eddorians must not