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information the brain plans the future development of society. It is soulless and infallible; and it is secret. Even to know about it can be fatal. That is why I am a fugitive and why you, too, Aubry, may become a fugitive before very long, in spite of their hypnotic brainwashing treatment. You recognize the truth of what I am saying, don't you, Aubry."

"Yes. At least I think I do . . . some of it."

"The master brain is the supreme authority, and its computations form the basis of law and conduct, of life and death. Very few of us know the truth. The great majority of women in the world live their lives in organized peace and harmony, never enquiring beyond the erotic boundary of their own sex hormones, and accepting the mortic laws without question."

"Your party," said Aubretia. "What is its purpose?"

"We have no party. We are a few individuals who are not amenable to hypnotic techniques. We are the freethinkers of the world. We have no aim other than to spread the truth and destroy evil and perversion and corruption."

"Even if it means creating unhappiness and discontent?"

Aquilegia smiled grimly. "The truth is more important than happiness and contentment. Morality is more vital than peace and stability based on lies and Lesbianism."

Aubretia frowned in mild bewilderment. "But what kind of morality are you talking about? Five thousand years ago there were men in the world, and morality was a matter of emotional balance between men and women at a time when there was no such thing as parthenogenesis. Now we have only women and universal parthenogenesis. You can't expect the same kind of morality."

"That's the master brain talking," said Aquilegia, twisting her lips cynically. "It might be true if the evolutionary doctrine were true, that man had been eliminated as an unnecessary eugenic complication. But men destroyed himself, and