Astounding Science Fiction, British Edition — page 36: what you’re looking at

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HUMPTY DUMPTY By LEWIS PADGETT The advantages a telepathic race would have are fairly obvious. But the privilege carries an obliga- tion; for every right, there is a duty, and the possession of power is suicidal unless wisdom accom- panies it! Illustrated by Freas And God said to Noah, the end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them... oN pac beoes | OO© OOO'O'S LJ Sesh a stone sky Jeff Cody : stood, his hands clasped behind him. He was trying to read the mind of an electronic calculator, and trying to keep his own mind from being read with all the violence in it. He shut down all his barriers around his own despera- tion, pushed hard upon the one thought he did not dare to face. He held it down, trying to drown it under the surface turmoil of his mind. The cal- culator had a broad, bland, glassy brow, winking with lights and reflec- tions. Somewhere inside it a thin slice of crystal lay that could wipe human life off the face of the planet. Not Jeff . Cody’s life, and not the life of his # people—but all human, nontelepathic life. The responsibility for the crystal was one man’s. Cody’s. Behind him Allenby shifted from 34 conicibooks.conn