"Are there any other people here?" Stark asked the man.
"The two of us. Man and woman."
"But are there any others?"
"How would there be any others? What other kind of people could there be than man and woman?"
"But is there more than one man or woman?"
"How could there be more than one of anything?"
The captain was a little puzzled by this, but he went on doggedly: "Ha-Adamah, what do you think that we are? Are we not people?"
"You are not anything till I name you. But I will name you and then you can be. You are named Captain. He is named Priest. He is named Engineer. He is named Flunky."
"Thanks a lot," said Steiner.
"But are we not people?" persisted Captain Stark.