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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Builders - -Author: Fox B. Holden - -Release Date: April 18, 2021 [eBook #65100] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BUILDERS *** - - - - - The BUILDERS - - By FOX B. HOLDEN - - They rummaged in the ruins of Earth's cities, - looking for plans to restore vital machinery. But - what they finally constructed got up and ran away! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - February 1951 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Markten flew low over the sun-lit ruins, and wondered idly if he would -find any more in them than he had found elsewhere on the planet. - -"Looks as completely dead as all the rest," he said to his companion. -"New City has a big enough population anyhow, as far as I'm concerned. -Not that it's important, I suppose. There's always plenty of space in -which to expand, but you know what I mean." - -The younger occupant of the low-circling aircraft nodded his -understanding. "There'd be enough room on either side of the Big -Mountains to take care of millions more of us, I guess. But I think -you're right. Anyway, there isn't another nomad or ruin-dweller on the -planet. New City is as complete as it's going to be--and as you say, -twelve million is enough. But do you think we'll find any more plans -down there?" - -"Hard to say," Markten answered, levelling off the aircraft for a -landing. "But if there are traces of anything, I hope you'll keep your -attention on what's of technical value and not waste time again on all -that other stuff. None of us have ever bothered reading it--you can't -build anything from it--no diagrams. To build is the only purpose of -New City's civilization--how could anything else be of importance?" - -"I've wondered off and on about that. But then, there is so little of -anything left that it doesn't make much difference. Important thing is -to find more diagrams." - -"Glad you realize it. I've been a citizen of New City ever since the -first few of us on this continent started building it forty years ago, -and I can tell you, building things is all that's important. You'd -realize that soon enough if you'd wandered around, alone and useless, -as I and a lot of other Elders did for years." Markten brought the -fast, twin-engined aircraft in to a perfect landing, cut the power, -and set the brakes. The two left their seats and started getting field -equipment together. - -"They told us at the academy that you Elders wandered so far and for -so long that you had permanently lost all memory of the past. Is that -really true, Markten?" - -"It is, not that it ever mattered. We all had forgotten from where we'd -come, or how we got where we were. I guess all we remembered was how to -build. But then--" - -"As you said, building is all there is that's important." - -They left the plane and started in the direction of what once had -obviously been a city. To Markten and his young aide the sight was -nothing new; they had seen, as had all the other members of the -Research Builders division, thousands of others just like the one -toward which they were now walking. Sometimes Markten thought it would -have been a lot easier to have signed up with the Production Builders -division--but that would have been dull. Always searching for new -plans: building something _new_--that was more to his taste. - - * * * * * - -The only trouble was, there seemed to be fewer and fewer new plans -as the years went by. And now, even when you found some, you had to -check its potentialities exhaustively before you started building it. -Markten shuddered a little when he thought of some of the first things -that had been built without preconstruction study for analysis as to -its probable use. One of them would have blown New City off the face -of the earth had it been put into operation in a metropolitan proving -lab. Fortunately, the thing had been too big, and had been taken for -trial to a lab located in a southern desert. Today, there was still a -ten-mile wide crater in the sand where the thing had gone off. - -Production never got that model from Research. There were some others -of similar nature that they hadn't got, too.... - -That was why, these days, even if you dug something up, you were damn -careful before you built it. - -"Say, Markten!" - -"Yes?" - -"I was wondering about something. Eventually, we're bound to find all -the plans there are. What happens when there aren't anymore?" - -"Maybe then there'll be time for that other stuff I caught you wasting -time on in the ruin we were in last week!" There was a grin on -Markten's thin face. "But not until!" - -"No, seriously, Markten. The division academy instructors said there -wasn't much left, and that was why we had to be especially well -trained, to find what little more there is. But what about after we do, -and there just isn't anymore?" - -"Just--build more of what we've got, of course. What else would there -be to do?" - -"Well--well, you must be right. But Production sure will be dull." - - * * * * * - -There was only a thin edge of the sun still separating daylight from -darkness as they forced entry into their tenth ruin, and Markten's tone -was dejected. - -"This," he said, "has been a day wasted, and there's little possibility -that we'll come up with anything here. Better get out your night-lamp." - -Markten's young assistant obeyed, and started working his way into one -of the few still-standing corridors. He moved cautiously, remembering -his training. When exploration of ruins of shattered masonry is -indicated, guard against unnecessary vibrations.... The ruins yielded -nothing but broken stone and twisted steel. There could, of course, be -an obscured entrance to some lower level--many amazing documents had -been discovered in the almost untouched lower levels of what had seemed -totally destroyed buildings when viewed only from the gutted streets. -That was why it took so long to search a city, even though there -often seemed nothing left to search. There could always be some spot -undetectable but intact.... - -When he found the opening that led downward, it was necessary to go -through it and descend without contacting Markten. To shout would mean -dangerous vibrations--and to go back could well mean hours of delay in -rediscovering his find. - -The night-lamp pushed relentlessly against the blackness that hung -stagnant in the lower level, and picked out the stumbling blocks of -debris which had to be moved as smoothly as their weights would permit. -Some were larger than the young researcher himself, and he realized -that the going would have been a lot better had he not rationalized -about contacting Markten to make whatever finds there might be on his -own. - -There were many brick and girder-cluttered places that once had been -rooms, but, like so many other shattered interiors he had examined, -all but stone and steel had been disintegrated by the unthinkable -shock-waves that must have accompanied what awful force it had been -that had wreaked such havoc over the face of an entire globe. Objects -made of less sturdy stuff had been literally torn molecule from -molecule, atom from atom. - -The chance of discovery of a complete book had been computed as a -near impossibility. The finding of a complete blueprint or set of -diagrams was considered almost as hopeless. To find all the pieces of a -plan which had merely been shattered was about the best that could be -expected. And, for forty years, now, as Markten had said, it had been -done by four million painstaking Research Builders. It was, in a way, -amazing how so many thousands of different things had been built.... - - * * * * * - -The lamp's roving beam fingered something quickly, fell back into -blackness, then was suddenly groping with the desperation of an almost -uncontrolled excitement for what it touched and lost. It touched -again.... - -Should he find Markten now? No, not yet! Perhaps what he saw would be -nothing. Pinned beneath one of the most massive steel girders he had -yet seen, they were-- - -Books! Four books! - -Quickly, yet with his nervous system under a willed rigidity, -he assembled the portable cutting torch and began freeing his -one-in-a-million find from the great length of twisted steel which held -it in a vice-like hold against an embedded section of stone flooring. - -Minutes ticked away. More than sixty of them were gone before the books -were in his hands at last. Did they hold any plans? Diagrams never -seen before by Research? The titles-- - -Carefully he deciphered them from the crushed covers. - -"A History of the World: 1800-1962." - -"The P-s-y-c-h-o-l-o-g-y of H-u-m-a-n Relations." - -"The P-h-i-l-o-s-o-p-h-i-e-s of P-l-a-t-o, S-o-c-r-a-t-e-s, and -A-r-i-s-t-o-t-l-e." - -The fourth title he did not understand at all because he could not read -it. He knew only one of its three words, and it made even less sense -than the other titles. Quickly, he flipped through the volume for a -possible hint of explanation, and there were-- - -Diagrams!-- - -Hundreds of them, and one especially beautiful one, larger than the -rest--it was necessary to unfold it from the book--in color! It was -obviously the only important one of the four books; the others, from -what he could gather from their rather vague titles, had nothing to do -with building anything--but this one, with diagrams, obviously did! - -In a haste accompanied with what he knew to be too little caution, -Markten's young aide hastened back the way he had come, sometimes -stumbling in his anxiety to present his invaluable find to the Elder, -once almost falling. - -But it took only minutes until he found Markten, who was still -examining the ruin on its ground level, near the large opening through -which they had entered. - -"Markten! Look--" - -There was an ominous rumbling sound, then a terrifying feeling of the -vibration of disintegration. - - * * * * * - -They bolted for the opening even as the still-standing masonry which -formed it began to topple. The rumbling increased to thunder-volume, -and the earth outside the collapsing ruin quaked beneath their running -feet. When they finally stopped at a safe distance, their night-lamps -showed only a slowly rising cloud of pumice and dust. - -"How often," Markten said, when it at last was over, "do you forget the -fundamentals of your basic training?" - -"I--" - -"It's done now. But the contents of whatever lower levels there may -have been are lost to us for good. Nothing could have survived that. -And we have never built a digging machine. There probably was nothing, -anyway, but next time--" - -Then Markten saw the book in his aide's hand. The look of -disappointment on his features changed suddenly to one of disbelief, -then to amazement. - -"At least I saved this! It has diagrams, Markten! The cave-in I caused -destroyed three other books, but they had no drawings in them at all. -Here. See if you can understand the title." - -"Let's get to the laboratory compartment of the plane, where we can see -something! Great electrons, boy, what made you hold this back?" - -Under the powerful lamps in the lab compartment of their aircraft, -Markten and the finder of the book puzzled over the three words on its -cover and fly-leaf. - -"Perhaps, in one of the dictionaries at Research headquarters--" - -"No, I don't think so," Markten mused. "We'll look when we get back, -but I don't think so.... Hmm. Doesn't make much difference--it's -the diagrams that are important. And the entire book isn't -incomprehensible. Lot of chemical terms, some electrical. I'm convinced -already that these diagrams constitute a structure of a purely -electrochemical nature. Although something seems to be missing, and -yet--" - -"At the headquarters lab, we can do a lot better than we can -here, Markten. Or we can hand it over right away to the Research -Pre-Construction Study division--" - -"Nothing doing! I hold a competence rating on that study business, -young fellow! I'll study it for possible inherent dangers, exactly -according to regulations. Myself! And then whatever it is, we'll build -it!" - -"But Markten, suppose--" - -Markten had already seated himself at the controls of the craft, -switched on the take-off lights and started the powerful engines. -Above the roar of the engines as they warmed for take-off, Markten's -assistant could still detect the undertones of excitement in the -Elder's voice. - -"It's something different--completely different that you've found! Not -just an improved design or a variation such as we've had to be content -with for the past five years.... This is _new_! I'm positive of it!" - -There was, of course, little sense in doubting the word of an Elder. -That was a part of training. Another part which Markten's aide had not -forgotten had also said, however, that there could always be danger in -a too-cursory preconstruction study of any new discovery. - -And then, of course, there were those other things he had read which -Markten had said were such a complete waste of time. - - * * * * * - -They began construction work from the large colored diagram less than -a month after the book containing it had been discovered. The diagram -itself, of course, had been enlarged to its full scale, as had other -sectional diagrams that Markten said definitely were parts of the same -thing, but drawn separately in the book to render greater detail. - -Two things had almost stumped the Elder completely, however, before -he announced his preconstruction studies finished, and that he was -prepared to begin actual construction. There were odors in the -laboratory which his aide's nostrils had never experienced before. He -wondered if they were as new to Markten. - -"I admit," Markten said the day he began work in the two specially -constructed, oblong vats filled with a fluid Markten called -formaldehyde, "I am puzzled about the power source. Obviously a chain -of electrochemical reactions, but stemming from _where_--that's what -I've got to find out. Also, I've had to have another full-scale diagram -drawn up. There was another colored one we missed--it was on a regular -page. Have a look." - -His aide's less-experienced eyes examined the second full-scale drawing -Markten had made. - -"It's--smaller. And--different, sort of. But yet it's the same. Maybe--" - -"Maybe one is just an improved model over the other? One a later -development, you think?" - -"Why not?" - -"That's what I've been wondering. But--no. My studies show that neither -has any greater power potential, to any marked degree, that is, than -the other. Both structures seem to have almost exactly the same -electrochemical potentialities. But for some reason, just the same, -they are _different_." - -"The original designers leave no clue in the book?" - -"No. Just formulae, and the usual stuff we find with diagrams." - -"You know, Markten, I've often wondered about whoever it was--" - -"There you go, forgetting one of the basics of training again! 'Of sole -importance is the discovery itself; its origination is a thing of the -past, and the past being dead, is therefore of no importance.'" - -"I remember. But you have confused me, Markten. With these two problems -unresolved, can you at the same time pronounce construction a safe -venture?" - -"I can, because neither of the unknowns is relative to the power -potential, which I have ascertained to the required tolerances. Neither -of them are based on a framework of nuclear physics, anyway. And I -have discovered no possibility of chemical reaction which would render -anything than a slow oxidation process. - -"Therefore, youngster, to solve for the two unknown -quantities--power source and construction-variation--we must build!" - -Markten was an Elder, so the trace of excitement in his voice was -excusable. His decision was not to be questioned. Yet-- - -"Markten, I have a peculiar feeling about this." - -"A peculiar _what_?" - -"Well, I--" - -"Are you questioning my preconstruction study?" Markten's tone was -suddenly flat, yet charged with authority. - -"Of course not, sir." - -"Here are untried, absolutely new diagrams. We must build. That is our -purpose. Now, we will begin. The--larger one first, I think." - - * * * * * - -They labored on the project for three months. They finished the -structure in the large vat first, and Markten left the job of -completing the smaller one to his assistant while he drained the larger -vat of its original fluid, dried the completed structure, and placed a -series of L-type electrodes at various spots on its exterior. - -"The smaller one came out to look quite a lot different, Markten. I'll -have it ready for the first series of charges by the time you have that -one going. I don't understand, however, what good the charges will do -when there isn't any power source to activate." - -"Making either of them work might be a problem, but somehow I -don't think so," Markten replied. "The whole set-up, devoid of any -central power unit as it seems to be, is designed in such a way that -electrochemical reactions of some sort should take place with the -first series of charges. A few rearrangements of electrodes might be -necessary...." - -During the next four hours, Markten's assistant worked with extra -speed, so that he was able to have the smaller vat drained and the -electrode placement diagramed for his own use. - -"Through what process of logic," he asked Markten as he neared his last -set of adjustments, "did you make your decision concerning a primary -charge for the inducement of the electrochemical reactions of which you -spoke?" - -"You may inscribe in your apprentice journal," the Elder said, as he -prepared a dynamo for use, "that insofar as the logic of the situation -was concerned, I simply applied the physical truth that an object at -rest tends to remain at rest until acted upon by some outside force. -Since the objects in this case are ingredients of a chemical nature -specifically constructed for electrical conduction, the only possible -solution is to activate them through application of an electromotive -force. If the logic has been faulty, of course," Markten paused a -moment, "then we will know that there has simply been an error in -construction. However, we have been precise in every step. They will -work." - -"What they will do, naturally, rests in theory. Something of an -electrical nature, in accordance with your logic. Correct?" - -"Precisely. And if I'm wrong, and they prove of no use at all--we'll -dismantle them and inform Research Library that any further such -diagrams discovered are worthless." - -The assistant straightened from his work. - -"Finished?" Markten asked. - -"I am. You know, though, even though they aren't exactly the same, they -have a peculiar similarity to--" - -"We built according to specifications. Ready?" - -"Go ahead, Markten." - - * * * * * - -Markten first reduced the penetrating power of the laboratory -operation-lamps to a subdued softness. The smooth metal walls of the -rectangularly shaped laboratory seemed to melt away to nothingness, and -most of the bluish light was focused on the contents of the two vats. - -Markten pressed a control. - -There was no sound as the electrical impulses surged through the -structures they had made, and the silence itself seemed a part of their -stillness. There was a faint odor now of ozone. - -Markten glanced at dials. - -"Try a temperature test; see if the materials are withstanding the -amperage. I will cut the current at your signal." - -Markten's assistant obeyed. - -"I don't understand," he said. "At completion, they were -room-temperature--68.7 calibrations. Now, exactly 98.6 calibrations, -yet the resistance of their chemical constituents would not warrant--" - -"Any damage? Tissue-breakdown?" - -"None I can see. Markten! The big one moved!" - -Then the smaller one moved, too. - -Both of them sat up. - -For the moment Markten and his aide looked only at each other, the -younger of the two speechless, incredulity on his features. Markten -smiled. - -"I was not sure," he said. "But, as you said, they do appear similar -to us. They are chemical automatons; I suspected, but of course could -not be sure. Now, we must discover the exact power source and, more -importantly, the control-centers of the things. Then--" - -But on these counts, Markten was doomed to disappointment. Aside -from his discovery that the things he had created would not function -properly without ingesting large amounts of different types of -vegetable and organic materials, and that they operated independently -of any outside stimulus, he was able to discover nothing more. Except, -when at length he had concluded that neither of the things could be -of any use to the populace of New City because they could be neither -electrically or mechanically directed by any type of control yet built, -he discovered that they actually resisted any attempts to dismantle -them. They ran. - -"Peculiar," he said. - -"Shall I pursue them?" his apprentice asked. "They appear to be heading -in the direction of the grasslands to the north." - -"Never mind." Markten sounded dejected. "They have a very low unit -power potential. They could never do any harm to anything." - -"I wish we knew what those three words on the book meant. 'Advanced -H-u-m-a-n A-n-a-t-o-m-y.'" - -"Nothing too important, really. Or we'd've known their meaning. Well, -there will be other things to build, and we need energy. Let's go to -Maintenance and recharge our plates." - -"Good thought. I guess those things wouldn't have been strong enough to -build anything anyway. 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But<br /> -what they finally constructed got up and ran away!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -February 1951<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Markten flew low over the sun-lit ruins, and wondered idly if he would -find any more in them than he had found elsewhere on the planet.</p> - -<p>"Looks as completely dead as all the rest," he said to his companion. -"New City has a big enough population anyhow, as far as I'm concerned. -Not that it's important, I suppose. There's always plenty of space in -which to expand, but you know what I mean."</p> - -<p>The younger occupant of the low-circling aircraft nodded his -understanding. "There'd be enough room on either side of the Big -Mountains to take care of millions more of us, I guess. But I think -you're right. Anyway, there isn't another nomad or ruin-dweller on the -planet. New City is as complete as it's going to be—and as you say, -twelve million is enough. But do you think we'll find any more plans -down there?"</p> - -<p>"Hard to say," Markten answered, levelling off the aircraft for a -landing. "But if there are traces of anything, I hope you'll keep your -attention on what's of technical value and not waste time again on all -that other stuff. None of us have ever bothered reading it—you can't -build anything from it—no diagrams. To build is the only purpose of -New City's civilization—how could anything else be of importance?"</p> - -<p>"I've wondered off and on about that. But then, there is so little of -anything left that it doesn't make much difference. Important thing is -to find more diagrams."</p> - -<p>"Glad you realize it. I've been a citizen of New City ever since the -first few of us on this continent started building it forty years ago, -and I can tell you, building things is all that's important. You'd -realize that soon enough if you'd wandered around, alone and useless, -as I and a lot of other Elders did for years." Markten brought the -fast, twin-engined aircraft in to a perfect landing, cut the power, -and set the brakes. The two left their seats and started getting field -equipment together.</p> - -<p>"They told us at the academy that you Elders wandered so far and for -so long that you had permanently lost all memory of the past. Is that -really true, Markten?"</p> - -<p>"It is, not that it ever mattered. We all had forgotten from where we'd -come, or how we got where we were. I guess all we remembered was how to -build. But then—"</p> - -<p>"As you said, building is all there is that's important."</p> - -<p>They left the plane and started in the direction of what once had -obviously been a city. To Markten and his young aide the sight was -nothing new; they had seen, as had all the other members of the -Research Builders division, thousands of others just like the one -toward which they were now walking. Sometimes Markten thought it would -have been a lot easier to have signed up with the Production Builders -division—but that would have been dull. Always searching for new -plans: building something <i>new</i>—that was more to his taste.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The only trouble was, there seemed to be fewer and fewer new plans -as the years went by. And now, even when you found some, you had to -check its potentialities exhaustively before you started building it. -Markten shuddered a little when he thought of some of the first things -that had been built without preconstruction study for analysis as to -its probable use. One of them would have blown New City off the face -of the earth had it been put into operation in a metropolitan proving -lab. Fortunately, the thing had been too big, and had been taken for -trial to a lab located in a southern desert. Today, there was still a -ten-mile wide crater in the sand where the thing had gone off.</p> - -<p>Production never got that model from Research. There were some others -of similar nature that they hadn't got, too....</p> - -<p>That was why, these days, even if you dug something up, you were damn -careful before you built it.</p> - -<p>"Say, Markten!"</p> - -<p>"Yes?"</p> - -<p>"I was wondering about something. Eventually, we're bound to find all -the plans there are. What happens when there aren't anymore?"</p> - -<p>"Maybe then there'll be time for that other stuff I caught you wasting -time on in the ruin we were in last week!" There was a grin on -Markten's thin face. "But not until!"</p> - -<p>"No, seriously, Markten. The division academy instructors said there -wasn't much left, and that was why we had to be especially well -trained, to find what little more there is. But what about after we do, -and there just isn't anymore?"</p> - -<p>"Just—build more of what we've got, of course. What else would there -be to do?"</p> - -<p>"Well—well, you must be right. But Production sure will be dull."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>There was only a thin edge of the sun still separating daylight from -darkness as they forced entry into their tenth ruin, and Markten's tone -was dejected.</p> - -<p>"This," he said, "has been a day wasted, and there's little possibility -that we'll come up with anything here. Better get out your night-lamp."</p> - -<p>Markten's young assistant obeyed, and started working his way into one -of the few still-standing corridors. He moved cautiously, remembering -his training. When exploration of ruins of shattered masonry is -indicated, guard against unnecessary vibrations.... The ruins yielded -nothing but broken stone and twisted steel. There could, of course, be -an obscured entrance to some lower level—many amazing documents had -been discovered in the almost untouched lower levels of what had seemed -totally destroyed buildings when viewed only from the gutted streets. -That was why it took so long to search a city, even though there -often seemed nothing left to search. There could always be some spot -undetectable but intact....</p> - -<p>When he found the opening that led downward, it was necessary to go -through it and descend without contacting Markten. To shout would mean -dangerous vibrations—and to go back could well mean hours of delay in -rediscovering his find.</p> - -<p>The night-lamp pushed relentlessly against the blackness that hung -stagnant in the lower level, and picked out the stumbling blocks of -debris which had to be moved as smoothly as their weights would permit. -Some were larger than the young researcher himself, and he realized -that the going would have been a lot better had he not rationalized -about contacting Markten to make whatever finds there might be on his -own.</p> - -<p>There were many brick and girder-cluttered places that once had been -rooms, but, like so many other shattered interiors he had examined, -all but stone and steel had been disintegrated by the unthinkable -shock-waves that must have accompanied what awful force it had been -that had wreaked such havoc over the face of an entire globe. Objects -made of less sturdy stuff had been literally torn molecule from -molecule, atom from atom.</p> - -<p>The chance of discovery of a complete book had been computed as a -near impossibility. The finding of a complete blueprint or set of -diagrams was considered almost as hopeless. To find all the pieces of a -plan which had merely been shattered was about the best that could be -expected. And, for forty years, now, as Markten had said, it had been -done by four million painstaking Research Builders. It was, in a way, -amazing how so many thousands of different things had been built....</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The lamp's roving beam fingered something quickly, fell back into -blackness, then was suddenly groping with the desperation of an almost -uncontrolled excitement for what it touched and lost. It touched -again....</p> - -<p>Should he find Markten now? No, not yet! Perhaps what he saw would be -nothing. Pinned beneath one of the most massive steel girders he had -yet seen, they were—</p> - -<p>Books! Four books!</p> - -<p>Quickly, yet with his nervous system under a willed rigidity, -he assembled the portable cutting torch and began freeing his -one-in-a-million find from the great length of twisted steel which held -it in a vice-like hold against an embedded section of stone flooring.</p> - -<p>Minutes ticked away. More than sixty of them were gone before the books -were in his hands at last. Did they hold any plans? Diagrams never -seen before by Research? The titles—</p> - -<p>Carefully he deciphered them from the crushed covers.</p> - -<p>"A History of the World: 1800-1962."</p> - -<p>"The P-s-y-c-h-o-l-o-g-y of H-u-m-a-n Relations."</p> - -<p>"The P-h-i-l-o-s-o-p-h-i-e-s of P-l-a-t-o, S-o-c-r-a-t-e-s, and -A-r-i-s-t-o-t-l-e."</p> - -<p>The fourth title he did not understand at all because he could not read -it. He knew only one of its three words, and it made even less sense -than the other titles. Quickly, he flipped through the volume for a -possible hint of explanation, and there were—</p> - -<p>Diagrams!—</p> - -<p>Hundreds of them, and one especially beautiful one, larger than the -rest—it was necessary to unfold it from the book—in color! It was -obviously the only important one of the four books; the others, from -what he could gather from their rather vague titles, had nothing to do -with building anything—but this one, with diagrams, obviously did!</p> - -<p>In a haste accompanied with what he knew to be too little caution, -Markten's young aide hastened back the way he had come, sometimes -stumbling in his anxiety to present his invaluable find to the Elder, -once almost falling.</p> - -<p>But it took only minutes until he found Markten, who was still -examining the ruin on its ground level, near the large opening through -which they had entered.</p> - -<p>"Markten! Look—"</p> - -<p>There was an ominous rumbling sound, then a terrifying feeling of the -vibration of disintegration.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>They bolted for the opening even as the still-standing masonry which -formed it began to topple. The rumbling increased to thunder-volume, -and the earth outside the collapsing ruin quaked beneath their running -feet. When they finally stopped at a safe distance, their night-lamps -showed only a slowly rising cloud of pumice and dust.</p> - -<p>"How often," Markten said, when it at last was over, "do you forget the -fundamentals of your basic training?"</p> - -<p>"I—"</p> - -<p>"It's done now. But the contents of whatever lower levels there may -have been are lost to us for good. Nothing could have survived that. -And we have never built a digging machine. There probably was nothing, -anyway, but next time—"</p> - -<p>Then Markten saw the book in his aide's hand. The look of -disappointment on his features changed suddenly to one of disbelief, -then to amazement.</p> - -<p>"At least I saved this! It has diagrams, Markten! The cave-in I caused -destroyed three other books, but they had no drawings in them at all. -Here. See if you can understand the title."</p> - -<p>"Let's get to the laboratory compartment of the plane, where we can see -something! Great electrons, boy, what made you hold this back?"</p> - -<p>Under the powerful lamps in the lab compartment of their aircraft, -Markten and the finder of the book puzzled over the three words on its -cover and fly-leaf.</p> - -<p>"Perhaps, in one of the dictionaries at Research headquarters—"</p> - -<p>"No, I don't think so," Markten mused. "We'll look when we get back, -but I don't think so.... Hmm. Doesn't make much difference—it's -the diagrams that are important. And the entire book isn't -incomprehensible. Lot of chemical terms, some electrical. I'm convinced -already that these diagrams constitute a structure of a purely -electrochemical nature. Although something seems to be missing, and -yet—"</p> - -<p>"At the headquarters lab, we can do a lot better than we can -here, Markten. Or we can hand it over right away to the Research -Pre-Construction Study division—"</p> - -<p>"Nothing doing! I hold a competence rating on that study business, -young fellow! I'll study it for possible inherent dangers, exactly -according to regulations. Myself! And then whatever it is, we'll build -it!"</p> - -<p>"But Markten, suppose—"</p> - -<p>Markten had already seated himself at the controls of the craft, -switched on the take-off lights and started the powerful engines. -Above the roar of the engines as they warmed for take-off, Markten's -assistant could still detect the undertones of excitement in the -Elder's voice.</p> - -<p>"It's something different—completely different that you've found! Not -just an improved design or a variation such as we've had to be content -with for the past five years.... This is <i>new</i>! I'm positive of it!"</p> - -<p>There was, of course, little sense in doubting the word of an Elder. -That was a part of training. Another part which Markten's aide had not -forgotten had also said, however, that there could always be danger in -a too-cursory preconstruction study of any new discovery.</p> - -<p>And then, of course, there were those other things he had read which -Markten had said were such a complete waste of time.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>They began construction work from the large colored diagram less than -a month after the book containing it had been discovered. The diagram -itself, of course, had been enlarged to its full scale, as had other -sectional diagrams that Markten said definitely were parts of the same -thing, but drawn separately in the book to render greater detail.</p> - -<p>Two things had almost stumped the Elder completely, however, before -he announced his preconstruction studies finished, and that he was -prepared to begin actual construction. There were odors in the -laboratory which his aide's nostrils had never experienced before. He -wondered if they were as new to Markten.</p> - -<p>"I admit," Markten said the day he began work in the two specially -constructed, oblong vats filled with a fluid Markten called -formaldehyde, "I am puzzled about the power source. Obviously a chain -of electrochemical reactions, but stemming from <i>where</i>—that's what -I've got to find out. Also, I've had to have another full-scale diagram -drawn up. There was another colored one we missed—it was on a regular -page. Have a look."</p> - -<p>His aide's less-experienced eyes examined the second full-scale drawing -Markten had made.</p> - -<p>"It's—smaller. And—different, sort of. But yet it's the same. Maybe—"</p> - -<p>"Maybe one is just an improved model over the other? One a later -development, you think?"</p> - -<p>"Why not?"</p> - -<p>"That's what I've been wondering. But—no. My studies show that neither -has any greater power potential, to any marked degree, that is, than -the other. Both structures seem to have almost exactly the same -electrochemical potentialities. But for some reason, just the same, -they are <i>different</i>."</p> - -<p>"The original designers leave no clue in the book?"</p> - -<p>"No. Just formulae, and the usual stuff we find with diagrams."</p> - -<p>"You know, Markten, I've often wondered about whoever it was—"</p> - -<p>"There you go, forgetting one of the basics of training again! 'Of sole -importance is the discovery itself; its origination is a thing of the -past, and the past being dead, is therefore of no importance.'"</p> - -<p>"I remember. But you have confused me, Markten. With these two problems -unresolved, can you at the same time pronounce construction a safe -venture?"</p> - -<p>"I can, because neither of the unknowns is relative to the power -potential, which I have ascertained to the required tolerances. Neither -of them are based on a framework of nuclear physics, anyway. And I -have discovered no possibility of chemical reaction which would render -anything than a slow oxidation process.</p> - -<p>"Therefore, youngster, to solve for the two unknown -quantities—power source and construction-variation—we must build!"</p> - -<p>Markten was an Elder, so the trace of excitement in his voice was -excusable. His decision was not to be questioned. Yet—</p> - -<p>"Markten, I have a peculiar feeling about this."</p> - -<p>"A peculiar <i>what</i>?"</p> - -<p>"Well, I—"</p> - -<p>"Are you questioning my preconstruction study?" Markten's tone was -suddenly flat, yet charged with authority.</p> - -<p>"Of course not, sir."</p> - -<p>"Here are untried, absolutely new diagrams. We must build. That is our -purpose. Now, we will begin. The—larger one first, I think."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>They labored on the project for three months. They finished the -structure in the large vat first, and Markten left the job of -completing the smaller one to his assistant while he drained the larger -vat of its original fluid, dried the completed structure, and placed a -series of L-type electrodes at various spots on its exterior.</p> - -<p>"The smaller one came out to look quite a lot different, Markten. I'll -have it ready for the first series of charges by the time you have that -one going. I don't understand, however, what good the charges will do -when there isn't any power source to activate."</p> - -<p>"Making either of them work might be a problem, but somehow I -don't think so," Markten replied. "The whole set-up, devoid of any -central power unit as it seems to be, is designed in such a way that -electrochemical reactions of some sort should take place with the -first series of charges. A few rearrangements of electrodes might be -necessary...."</p> - -<p>During the next four hours, Markten's assistant worked with extra -speed, so that he was able to have the smaller vat drained and the -electrode placement diagramed for his own use.</p> - -<p>"Through what process of logic," he asked Markten as he neared his last -set of adjustments, "did you make your decision concerning a primary -charge for the inducement of the electrochemical reactions of which you -spoke?"</p> - -<p>"You may inscribe in your apprentice journal," the Elder said, as he -prepared a dynamo for use, "that insofar as the logic of the situation -was concerned, I simply applied the physical truth that an object at -rest tends to remain at rest until acted upon by some outside force. -Since the objects in this case are ingredients of a chemical nature -specifically constructed for electrical conduction, the only possible -solution is to activate them through application of an electromotive -force. If the logic has been faulty, of course," Markten paused a -moment, "then we will know that there has simply been an error in -construction. However, we have been precise in every step. They will -work."</p> - -<p>"What they will do, naturally, rests in theory. Something of an -electrical nature, in accordance with your logic. Correct?"</p> - -<p>"Precisely. And if I'm wrong, and they prove of no use at all—we'll -dismantle them and inform Research Library that any further such -diagrams discovered are worthless."</p> - -<p>The assistant straightened from his work.</p> - -<p>"Finished?" Markten asked.</p> - -<p>"I am. You know, though, even though they aren't exactly the same, they -have a peculiar similarity to—"</p> - -<p>"We built according to specifications. Ready?"</p> - -<p>"Go ahead, Markten."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Markten first reduced the penetrating power of the laboratory -operation-lamps to a subdued softness. The smooth metal walls of the -rectangularly shaped laboratory seemed to melt away to nothingness, and -most of the bluish light was focused on the contents of the two vats.</p> - -<p>Markten pressed a control.</p> - -<p>There was no sound as the electrical impulses surged through the -structures they had made, and the silence itself seemed a part of their -stillness. There was a faint odor now of ozone.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Markten glanced at dials.</p> - -<p>"Try a temperature test; see if the materials are withstanding the -amperage. I will cut the current at your signal."</p> - -<p>Markten's assistant obeyed.</p> - -<p>"I don't understand," he said. "At completion, they were -room-temperature—68.7 calibrations. Now, exactly 98.6 calibrations, -yet the resistance of their chemical constituents would not warrant—"</p> - -<p>"Any damage? Tissue-breakdown?"</p> - -<p>"None I can see. Markten! The big one moved!"</p> - -<p>Then the smaller one moved, too.</p> - -<p>Both of them sat up.</p> - -<p>For the moment Markten and his aide looked only at each other, the -younger of the two speechless, incredulity on his features. Markten -smiled.</p> - -<p>"I was not sure," he said. "But, as you said, they do appear similar -to us. They are chemical automatons; I suspected, but of course could -not be sure. Now, we must discover the exact power source and, more -importantly, the control-centers of the things. Then—"</p> - -<p>But on these counts, Markten was doomed to disappointment. Aside -from his discovery that the things he had created would not function -properly without ingesting large amounts of different types of -vegetable and organic materials, and that they operated independently -of any outside stimulus, he was able to discover nothing more. Except, -when at length he had concluded that neither of the things could be -of any use to the populace of New City because they could be neither -electrically or mechanically directed by any type of control yet built, -he discovered that they actually resisted any attempts to dismantle -them. They ran.</p> - -<p>"Peculiar," he said.</p> - -<p>"Shall I pursue them?" his apprentice asked. "They appear to be heading -in the direction of the grasslands to the north."</p> - -<p>"Never mind." Markten sounded dejected. "They have a very low unit -power potential. They could never do any harm to anything."</p> - -<p>"I wish we knew what those three words on the book meant. 'Advanced -H-u-m-a-n A-n-a-t-o-m-y.'"</p> - -<p>"Nothing too important, really. Or we'd've known their meaning. Well, -there will be other things to build, and we need energy. Let's go to -Maintenance and recharge our plates."</p> - -<p>"Good thought. 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