"Millions of men watched apples fall to the ground, but one _did_ ask if
this might not be the key to the structure of the universe, the balance
of the stars.

"Billions watched the stars, but finally one _did_ ask, 'What if the
light be curved instead of straight?'

"There is capacity in man, this protoplasmic life, that had to learn an
ingenuity which might surpass even yours.

"This is not the final door in the corridor of thought. Still other
doors, on down the corridor, are yet to be explored. And you may need
these special gifts of man to open them, as he has needed this new room
of thought.

"Be patient. A million or a billion may come here to seek the method
that can change things to fit the equation of desire, before one comes
who asks a question even you have not conceived.

"But someday he _will_ come--and ask."

The lights danced faster now in patterns of delight.

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