[22] What is Money, Victor L. Clark, Houghton Mifflin Co., p. 2.
[23] Ibid., p. 23.
[24] Ibid., p. 24.
[25] The Family Circle Inc., June 28, 1946, V. 28, No. 26, pp. 10-11, by W.W. Wheatley.
[26] The Story of Money, Norman Angell, Garden City Publ., 1929, p. 381.
CHAPTER VII
Octopus Colossus
Sun-Rank Banard remarked, "It's time for lunch, so let's adjourn to the thought transmission-proof dining room. Our women folk are away visiting, so we will be by ourselves, and we can informally and freely converse."
During the meal we carried on an animated and pleasant conversation in which Sun-Rank Banard very often joined. The gist of it was mainly, at our earth men's lack of impression and perception of earth conditions.
Our boys were astonished at the detailed information the Martians had on our earth life. One said that he had never clearly thought through its economic ills. He had merely accepted them. Although he had heard and studied many of these points, they are beginning to now take on a new significance. Another remarked that the observers seem to be more impressed and are more retentive to what takes place, than those who are within the actual performance of the scenes of our life's functions.