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1、SECONDSTAGELENSMANFirstserializedin"ASTOUNDING,"Nov'41-Feb'42;Fistbook,FantasyPresshardbound,1953BYE.E.“DOC”SMITHFOREWORDAcoupleofbillionyearsago,whenthefirstandSecondGalaxieswerepassingthrougheachotherandwhenmyriadsofplanetswerecomingintobeingwhereonlyahandfulhadexistedbefore,tworac
2、esofbeingswerealreadyancient.Eachhadbecomeindependentofthechanceformationofplanetsuponwhichtolive.Eachhadwonalargemeasureofpoweroveritsenvironment;theArisiansbyforceofmindalone,theEddoriansbyemployingbothmindandmechanism.TheArisianswerenativetothis,ournormalspace-timecontinuum.Theyha
3、dlivedinitsincetheunthinkablyremotetimeoftheirorigin.TheoriginalArisiawasverymuchlikeEarth.ThusallournormalspacewaspermeatedbyArisianlife-spores,andthusuponallEarth-likeplanetstherecameintobeingracesmoreorlesslikewhattheArisianshadbeeninthedaysoftheirracialyouth.TheEddorians,ontheoth
4、erhand,wereinterlopers.Theycametoourspace-timecontinuumfromsomehorriblydifferentplenum.ForeonstheyhadbeenexploringtheMacrocosmicAll;movingtheirplanetsfromplenumtoplenum;seekingthatwhichatlasttheyfound—oneinwhichtherewereenoughplanets,soontobeinhabitedbyintelligentlife,tosateeventheEd
5、dorianlustfordominance.Here,inourownuniverse,theywouldstay;andheresupremetheywouldrule.TheEldersofArisia,however,theablestthinkersoftherace,hadknownofandhadstudiedtheEddoriansformanycyclesoftime.TheirintegratedVisualizationoftheCosmicAllshowedwhatwastohappen.NomorethantheArisiansthem
6、selvescouldtheEddoriansbeslainbyanyphysicalmeans;norcouldtheArisians,unaided,killalltheinvadersbymentalforce.Eddore'sAll-HighestandhisInnermostCircle,intheirultrashieldedcitadel,couldbedestroyedonlybyamentalboltofsuchnatureandmagnitudethatitsgenerator,whichwastobecomeknownastheGalact
7、icPatrol,wouldrequireseverallongArisianlifetimesforitsbuilding.Norwouldthatbuildingbeeasy.TheEddoriansmustbekeptinignorance,bothofArisiaandoftheproposedgenerator,untiltoolatetotakeeffectivecounter-measures.Also,noentitybelowthethirdlevelofintelligencecouldeverbeallowedtolearnthetruth
8、,forthatknow
