wn."

"No!" He spoke so vehemently that the others started. "You know
what would happen? Nobody would be able to turn it off; they'd
all be hypnotized, or doped, or whatever it is. They'd just sit
in a circle around it till they starved to death, and when the
power-unit gave out, the record-player would be surrounded by
a ring of skeletons. We'll just have to keep on playing it for
them ourselves. Terrans' Burden."

"That'll give us a sanction over them," Gofredo observed. "Extra
_thugg-thugg_ if they're very good; shut it off on them if they act
nasty. And find out what Lillian has in her voice that the rest of
us don't have, and make a good loud recording of that, and stash it
away along with the rest of the heavy-weapons ammunition. You know,
you're not going to have any trouble at all, when we go down-country
to talk to the king or whatever. This is better than fire-water ever
was."

"We must never misuse our advantage, Luis," Meillard said seriously.
"We must use it only for their good."

He really meant it. Only--You had to know some general history to
study technological history, and it seemed to him that that pious
assertion had been made a few times before. Some of the others who
had made it had really meant it, too, but that had made little
difference in the long run.

Fayon and Anna were talking enthusiastically about the work ahead of
them.

"I don't know where your subject ends and mine begins," Anna was
saying. "We'll just have to handle it between us. What are we going
to call it? We certainly can't call it hearing."

"Nonauditory sonic sense is the only thing I can think of," Fayon
said. "And that's such a clumsy term."

"Mark; you thought of it first," Anna said. "What do you think?"

"Nonauditory sonic sense. It isn't any worse than Domesticated
Type C, and that got cut down to size. _Naudsonce._"

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