cting to the purely
rational explanation Metcalf prepared to convince them they should go
home. They were on a wrong tack and needed a generous amount of the
right feedback to get them back where they belonged. The cold, logical
approach was a dud. What does it take to move an intractible mob?
Emotion--based on the projected consequences of what they're doing. A
perfect feedback setup when correctly applied. And it worked."

Holt shuddered faintly and moved away from the chair he had sat in to
experience his own feedback. "I'm not quite sure who owes who that
dinner," he said to Paul. "But I think somebody does."

"We'll split it," Paul said. And then he was silent as they listened to
the departure of another cargo ship carrying parts of the second Wheel
to the thousand-mile orbit.

He smiled to himself. Ye of little faith!--he thought. Frightened about
the true nature of a race that had come through three billion years of
the kind of torment that Man had survived!

Man had everything that was needed to go to the stars or anywhere else
he might want to go. He was safe. Man could never be turned into a
robot. The basic mechanisms of his humanity were so interwoven with the
structure of his being that they could never be separated.

But they hadn't come very far, Paul knew. They had opened only a small
crack in a door that had been irrationally closed from the beginning of
time. They had to know fully why that door had never been opened before.
And beyond it might lie a thousand others just as tightly closed and
closely guarded.

Yet they had reached a starting point, at last. Project Superman could
get about its business of preparing men for the stars.

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