For, strangely enough, the amateur at any science feels that he must make a large batch in order to do it at all. In electricity he wants excessive powers and lethal voltages to do that which a trained technician can accomplish with less deadly items.
However—was the motive avarice or altruism?
James Forrest Carroll studied them as they studied him.
CHAPTER V
Kingallis
Kingallis himself put an end to one of Carroll's worries. After several days of study, the alien doctor called him aside.
"Carroll, you know that you are helpless," he said. "We know that you are helpless. The point is just this: We can study your mind better if you are not worrying. Therefore I am going to put an end to one major worry of yours. Remember, always, we know that you are studying us!
"We are using the forerunner of our mental control beam to study you, Carroll. You know that. The mental educator came first, the mental control without wearing electrodes came long afterwards."
"Understandable," nodded Carroll easily. "Men learned to communicate along a wire long before they used radio."