combining the two, had produced that little vehicle.

A man of science; and perhaps more than that. As old Anna Green had
said, perhaps he was a man inspired--a man, following his dreams, his
convictions, convinced that somewhere in God's great creation of things
that are, there must be an existence freed of those things by which Man
himself so often makes human life a tortured hell.

"And Something led me here, Lee," the gentle old voice was saying.
"Perhaps not such a coincidence. On this great Inner Surface of gentle
light and gentle warmth--with Nature offering nothing against which one
must strive--there must be many groups of simple people like these. They
have no thought of evil--there is nothing--no one, to teach it to them.
If I had not landed here, I think I would have found much the same thing
almost anywhere else on the Inner Surface."

"The Inner Surface? I don't understand, grandfather."

A conception--a reality here--that was numbing in its vastness. This was
the concave, inner surface, doubtless deep within the atom of some
material substance. A little empty Space here, surrounded by solidity.

"And that--" Lee murmured, "then that little space is our Inter-Stellar
abyss?"

"Yes. Of course. The stars, as we call them--from here you could call
them tiny particles--like electrons whirling. All of them in this little
void. With good eyesight, you can sometimes see them there--"

"I did."

And to this viewpoint which Lee had now--so gigantic, compared to
Earth--all the Inter-Stellar universe was a void here of what old
Anthony considered would be perhaps eight or ten thousand miles. A void,
to Lee now, was itself of no greater volume than the Earth had been to
him before!

Silently he pondered it. This Inner Surface--not much bigger, to him
now, than the surface of the Earth is to its humans.... Suddenly
he felt small--infinitely tiny. Out here beyond the stars, he was
only within the atom of something larger, a human, partly on his
way--emerging--outward--

* * * * *

It gave him a new vague conception. As though now, because he was partly
emerged, the all-wise Creator was giving him a new insight. Surely in
this simple form of existence humans were totally unaware of what evil
could be. Was not this a higher form of life than down there on his tiny
Earth?

The conception numbed him with awe....

"You see, Lee, I have been looking forward to having you become a