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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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He
laughed
softly.
"Think,
Senores!
Compare
the
estate
of
men
with
the
estate
of
apes!
Compare
the
civilization
which
will
arise
upon
the
earth
when
men's
brains
are
as
far
above
their
present
level
as
the
present
level
is
above
the
anthropoid!
The
upward
steps
of
the
human
race
under
my
rule
will
parallel,
will
surpass
the
advance
from
the
brutish
caveman
to
intellectual
genius.
But
I
have
seen,
Senores,
the
one
danger
in
my
offering."
There
was
silence.
Jamison
shook
his
head
despairingly.
The
Master
could
not
see
him.
He
formed
the
word
with
his
lips.
"Crazy!"
But
Bell
said
coldly:
"Go
on."
"I
must
rule,"
said
The
Master
soberly.
"It
is
essential.
If
my
little
secret
were
known,
intelligences
would
be
magnified,
but
under
many
flags
and
with
many
aims.
Scientists,
with
genius
beside
which
Newton's
pales,
would
seek
out
deadly
weapons
for
war.
The
world
would
destroy
itself
of
its
own
genius.
But
under
my
rule--"
"Men
go
mad,"
said
Bell
coldly.
The
Master
smiled
reproachfully.
"Ah,
you
are
trying
to
make
me
angry,
so
that
I
will
betray
something!
You
are
clever,
Senor
Bell.
With
my
little
medicine,
in
such
quantities
as
I
would
administer
it
to
you...."
"You
describe
it,"
said
Bell
harshly
and
dogmatically,
"as
a
brain
stimulant.
But
it
drives
men
mad."
"To
be
sure,"
said
The
Master
mildly.
"It
does.
It
is
not
excreted
from
the
body
save
very,
very
slowly.
But
it
changes
in
the
blood
stream.
As--let
us
say--sugar
changes
into
alcohol
in
digestion.
The
end-product
of
my
little
medicine
is
a
poison
which
attacks
the
brain.
But
the
slightest
bit
of
unchanged
medicine
is
an
antidote.
It
is"--he
smiled
amiably--"it
is
as
if
sugar
in
the
body
changed
to
alcohol,
and
alcohol
was
a
poison,
but
sugar--unchanged--was
an
antidote.
That
is
it
exactly.
You
see
that
I
have
taken
my
little
medicine
for
years,
and
it
has
not
harmed
me."
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