"That's what gets me! Why aren't the humans the rulers,
doc?" Kinney waited until he felt sure the others were depending
upon him. "Smith, the humans on Sanus are not supreme now because
they were NEVER supreme."
Smith looked blank. "I don't get that."
"Don't you? Look here: you'll admit that success begets success,
won't you?"
"Success begets success? Sure! 'Nothing succeeds like success.'"
"Well, isn't that merely another way of saying that the
consciousness of superiority will lead to further conquests? We
humans are thoroughly conscious of our supremacy; if we weren't we'd
never attempt the things we do!"
Van Emmon saw the point. "In other words, the humans on the earth
never began to show their superiority until something--something
big, happened to demonstrate their ability!"
"Exactly!" cried Kinney. "Our prehistoric ancestors would never have
handed down such a tremendous ambition to you and me if they, at
that time, had not been able to point to some definite feat and say,
'That proves I'm a bigger man than a horse,' for example.
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