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completely at ease once more. She was a perfect guide, it was a perfect trip. Ah, yes! He must ask one more question. “Vega, why is it you speak to me in such excellent English? Do you not have a language of your own? I would like to hear a few words of it, just for the sake of hearing it.” Vega rapidly spoke a few words and looked at Adam. He shrugged his shoulders to show they meant nothing to him. “You see?” she pointed out. “Hearing our language means nothing to you. You have no time to learn it, and you have many other universally understood things to see with us. That is the best of all languages, understanding and knowledge. However, you did catch some phonetic delight when I spoke it, and earth shall one day have a similar language. “T repeat it more slowly: ‘un, doz e pez lo. It means, ‘No, you have lost weight,’ and was spoken once before to another man of Earth, so I do not harm the code of non-interference with your evolution. “In the grand and cosmic sense, Adam, there is only one language. Two complete strangers who are high in evolve-ment could carry on a conversation in silence, with a few mere signs and gestures. That is the universal language. Intuition first, and thought second, is the one language of the cosmos. “In the navigation of infinite space, there are few words, and little deliberate thought. Knowledge comes first, intuition takes care of the problems as they are met, and orderly thought does the rest. The deliberate mind is useless in coping with space and astral rhythms. The dynamic of space is felt, as a bird feels its domains; it is sensed, as a good maestro senses the entire symphony. It is the domain of the stars and all the spheres around them, and the law and order which prevails for these also prevails for us all. Space requires the intuitive mind, the soul mind, for releasing and guiding its momentous yet subtle power tides. “Our people come and go facilely in space ships. They study, make charts that add to our galaxial maps, tirelessly observe things, the little and the big. Yet, they seldom speak make that our 70 SON OF THE SUN