"Look at their technology. We either have a young race, just emerged
from savagery, or an old, stagnant race. All indications seem to
favor the latter. A young race would not have time to develop
telepathy as Anna suggests. An old race would have gone much farther
than these people have. Progress is a matter of communication and
pooling ideas and discoveries. Make a trend-graph of technological
progress on Terra; every big jump comes after an improvement in
communications. The printing press; railways and steamships; the
telegraph; radio. Then think how telepathy would speed up progress."
* * * * *
The sun was barely past noon meridian before the Svants, who had
ventured down into the fields at sunrise, were returning to the
mound-village. In the snooper-screen, they could be seen coming up
in tunics and breechclouts, entering houses, and emerging in long
robes. There seemed to be no bows or spears in evidence, but the big
horn sounded occasionally. Paul Meillard was pleased. Even if it had
been by sign-talk, which he rated with worm-fishing for trout or
shooting sitting rabbits, he had gotten something across to them.
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