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SORLIJ: Against all reasonable projection, the species is promising but
painfully immature. Fortunately their system is so remote, they won't constitute
a danger to the main civilizations during those millennia needed to fit them for
society at large.

Why was Covul left rather than Barion?

SORLIJ: He did the crucial work in lifting the species over Cultural Threshold.
I wouldn't have thought him capable of that, but he seems to know them better.

And your instructions to Colyul

PROLOGUE I ix

sorluj The obvious: to bring their emotional growth into parity with their
intellectual capacity. Some are already admirable specimens. But he must educate
them away from dualistic or miraculous doctrines immediately.

Sorhj, are we to understand you blithely told him to negate the major religions
of et species never without them anywhere in the known universe?

SORLIJ:The situation was tertiary. Their technology is already probing into space,
yet their essential thinking hasn't changed in thousands of years, and these
emotional tendencies are at the root of it like a large tumor in the base of the
brain. Radical surgery was required.

Your own discipline is . . . ?

SORLIJ: Marine biology. My work is known throughout the field,

BARION:We always said he did a mean oyster

Strike that remark from the record. sorluj given the parameters of this
improbable anthropoid, do you as a scientist think they will accept Coyiuls
adjustment?

SORLIJ: Oh yes, eventually. What else can h appen when you introduce an intelligent
being to 'an empirical foci'

BARION: Among humans, civil war.

Strike that. Barion, you've already been warned about these impertinent
interruptions.

BARION: Not impertinent but expert, 1 spent five million years among them.
Anyway, what have I got to loses I know I'm going to the Rock. I'm more worried
about Covul when he tries to educate Topside.

SORLIJ: Why? They can't destroy him.