Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 44 — page 146: what you’re looking at

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ADDICT man. His face was lit up. He turned to the others. “You see? Stein was a genius—a martyr. There are eleven more like George Three.” He turned to George Three once more. “Professor Stein was killed as a traitor, soon after he was ‘taken away,’ as you put it. And traitor he was—in this society! You and a few others are his greatest act of treachery.” “What ?” “Yes, you are a_ plant, George Three. You were given the preliminary training for a future job that is only now un- folding. Professor Stein se- cretly taught you mathematics. Furthermore, those sessions in the dark room youspoke about are responsible for your so- called allergy!” George Three was too shocked to protest. “Professor Stein, more clearly than anyone else at the time, saw the full social rami- fications of the drug Tab, which was just then being issued to workers widely. He saw that this ‘aid to production’ was to become a tool of power—well nigh absolute power—and that 145 as such it was to become well nigh absolutely bad. ““He visualised the kind of state it would make possible— hence probable. Thus he set about scattering seeds, as it were, for the future. Somehow he managed to get a job asa teacher in that obscure Village you came from. He taught the State Curricula—that even then vicious system of Statist lies. But he kept on the look- out for brilliant children. When he found a promising young mind he carefully prepared and conditioned it. “Yours, George Three, was such a mind. He discovered and nurtured your natural bent for mathematics. He gave you the original discipline for that science, taught you the fundamentals, and did all he could to prepare you for the day when it might be used. ““Meanwhile, he knew that you would be sent on to the City for factory service. The society even then was develop- ing an insatiable thirst for the material products of the new atomic technology. He knew that you would be put on Tab. Thus, over a period of years, he suggested to your hypno- commicloooks.comn)