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And you never told me. Those were his exact words. But slowly Multivac learned enough to answer deeper questions more fundamentally, and on May 14, 2061, what had been theory, became fact. 'And it does, I suppose,' said Theremon flatly.

For this reason, I could not present the results I obtained to my fellow physicians until I had verified my theories here on Earth. Mullen had never imagined that, standing on a ship, he would fail to see its hull. After all, man was eating grain before hydroponics, and if the primitives ate grain, they must have grown it in soil. In ordinary conversation, of course.