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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Bell
snarled
wordlessly,
but
if
one
had
noticed
his
eyes
they
would
have
been
seen
to
be
curiously
cool
and
alert
and
waiting.
The
Master
leaned
forward,
and
for
once
spoke
seriously,
almost
reverently.
"There
shall
be
a
forward
step,
Senores,
in
the
race
of
men.
Do
you
know
the
difference
between
the
brain
of
a
man
and
that
of
an
anthropoid
ape?
It
consists
only
of
a
filmy
layer
of
cortex,
a
film
of
gray
nerve
cells
which
the
ape
has
not.
And
that
little
layer
creates
the
difference
between
ape
and
man.
And
I
have
discovered
more.
My
little
medicine
acts
upon
that
film.
Administered
in
the
tiny
quantities
I
have
given
to
my
slaves,
it
has
no
perceptible
effect.
It
is
merely
a
compound
of
a
vegetable
substance
and
a
synthetic
organic
base.
It
is
not
excreted
from
the
body.
Like
lead,
it
remains
always
in
solution
in
the
blood.
But
in
or
out
of
the
blood
it
changes,
always,
to
the
substance
which
causes
murder
madness.
Fresh
or
changed,
my
little
medicine
acts
upon
the
brain."
He
smiled
brightly
upon
them.
"But
though
in
tiny
quantities
it
has
but
little
effect,
in
larger
quantities--when
fresh
it
makes
the
functioning
of
the
gray
cells
of
the
human
brain
as
far
superior
to
the
unmedicated
gray
cells,
as
those
human
gray
cells
are
to
the
white
cells
of
the
ape!
That
is
what
I
have
to
offer
to
the
human
race!
Intelligence
for
every
man,
which
shall
be
as
the
genius
of
the
past!"
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