Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 46 — page 76: what you’re looking at

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SAVIOUR he himself, through the vast powers that were his, could force Man back on the path that he had abandoned so long before? There was little doubt in his mind that he could. But the war was first to be dealt ~ with. Yes. Certainly. The war first. He looked at Dr. Allard. **Now ?” he asked. There was no need, he knew, to use words, but the habit was still with him. He could read the doctor’s thoughts and receive from them the affirmative answer before the little man could even nod his head. And he could read there the amaze- ment and the awe, also, seeing how the doctor had expected the realisation of his full power to take longer to dawn on him, had expected a time _ lag during which they might, together, consider how best his powers might be used to Stop the war. But such things were un- necessary. He already knew the full extent of his ability, and by this reason alone, knew exactly how best to utilise it. There was so much to be done. So very, very much. But the goal ahead of him was a wonderful goal, and such as would justify any means being 75 used to attain it. And above all else, for him, there would be Margaret... Then the purpose flowed and became transfigured into action. The great force spun away from him, outwards and out- wards along the filigree strands of the web at the centre of which he stood. And this force was not a blind force, nor was it a thing of destruc- tion. It was not a beam that would halt men in their tracks, immobilising them, making statues of them, and thus preventing them continuing with the various duties en- tailed by the war in which they were engaged. And certainly it was not a death force that would erase all fighting men with one swift, killing puff. It was none of these things, though it might have taken similar forms had its con- troller so willed. But Patrick Vane, being the person that he was, did not so will. The futility of such measures was quite plain to him, for neither statues nor dead men could be used to build a new world, and a new way of life out of the old. They could never aid in the great task of setting Man back again on the road to self- realisation, back on the road comiclooks.corn