s there." He laughed
shortly and moved to the window where he could see the nearby camp of
Morgan's Caravan. "Human development has moved--is moving--in a
completely different direction from anything I ever dreamed.
Oglethorpe's iron-hard, emotionless machine-men are the only ones who'll
get there. The rest of us who can't match the pace of a technological
society will be shucked off as the waste part in the development of a
species meant to inhabit galaxies instead of a single world."

"If I had ever wondered how you'd sound when you were completely out of
your mind I'd have the answer now," said Betty.

In the morning he turned over to one of the units the task of further
identifying and analyzing the feedback impulse they had discovered. In
the middle of this he was called to Oglethorpe's office. The
investigating Senators had arrived.

They were favorably impressed by the day-long tour that General
Oglethorpe provided for them around the entire Base. But they found in
Paul's announcement the strongest single factor in favor of permitting
Space Command to continue with its work.

"We know now," he said, "and this is something I haven't even had time
to present to General Oglethorpe--we know that a completely mechanical
man is possible."

The General's eyes narrowed as Paul's flat statement continued. "We know
that it is possible to have men at the helm of our ships, who are
incapable of error. We have hopes of producing them within a very short
time if Project Superman is allowed to continue. And when this is done,
there is no technical goal we cannot reach."

This was the thing the Senators had come to find out, and they were
satisfied. "But the public has got to be reassured of this," Senator
Hart said. "We need to get this mob away from your gates for one thing.
The news programs keep them constantly before the public eye and the
whole country is stirred up."

"We'll take care of it at once," General Oglethorpe said. "As Dr. Medick
has indicated, this discovery is so new that even I had not been
informed of it. Morgan's mob will go away as soon as they hear the news.
And that, in turn, will reassure the entire country. We can arrange for
a broadcast by Dr. Medick to the whole nation."

Paul was swept along as arrangements were made to make a statement to
Morgan and his group camped outside the Base, to the press, and to the
public in general.

Oglethorpe cornered him after the meeting with the Committee