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"No. Should I?"

"No, it isnt worth it. But anyway- ed1085 there they vd1591 were-a group of Encyclopedists, forming the nucleus av3181 mm122c of xiao1993036 a town-one jbjb236 small town vbvb525 in a world s688110 virtually yssd889 without metals, dp2248 circling a sun isolated from the rest of the Galaxy, at the edge, the very edge. And penji522 now, five ssuu1988 hundred years later, were a suburban world. The hs3017 whole jjpp518 place is one big park, with all the metal we want. We抮e at the center of everything now?"

"Not jb6646 really," kan255 said Compor. fwm868 "Were still circling a sun isolated from the rest of the zz50698 Galaxy. se23488 Still at the very edge ttt454 of the av8400 Galaxy."

"Ah no, ui678t youre saying jbt332 that without thinking. That was the aaqq99qq whole yu13331 point of this techdows little Seldon Crisis. We are more than the single world of Terminus. We are the Foundation, which aiav36 sends out its tentacles av22388 Galaxy-wide and av66456 rules that Galaxy vv1495 from its position at the very edge. We can do it because bd4499 were not jbjb895 isolated, except in position, and that doesnt count."

"All rjramm right. Ill accept that." Compor was clearly uninterested and took another avm8899 step downward. The invisible cord between them kes315 stretched farther.

Trevize reached out a hand as though to haul jbw227 his companion up the steps again. rian87870 xxooid "Dont you see jb00066 the nv7555 significance, m38m83 Compor? Theres jzy169 this enormous change, but jb4844 we dont accept it. In our hearts we want the xo3979 small av6657 Foundation, the small one-world operation we ee2838 had in the w673001411 old days-the days of jb7555 iron ee7474 heroes and noble asc787 saints av65430 that are gone forever."

"Come avqq56 on!"

"I abc99552277 mean jbk859 it. Look at Seldon Hall. To begin with, in the first crises avqqaa in Salvor Hardins day, it was just the Time RBL124293 Vault, mmsmqt a small sees03 auditorium in which the holographic image ssc4249 of Seldon aww799 appeared. That was all. Now its a av88zy colossal ymL0888 mausoleum, but is there a force-field ramp in the place? A slideway? A gravitic lift? -No, just these steps, ui3880 and we walk down them and we walk up them jianfeiboss as Hardin would have had to do. At odd and unpredictable bs3455 times, we cling in fright to the past."

He flung jb2772 his aapp166 arm outward passionately. "Is there any structural mn6514 component visible that is metal? Not one. It wouldnt do sjqq33 to wysy999 have qq887d any, since in Salvor Hardins day there p22p11 was no native metal to speak of and hardly any imported metal. sexppkk qqee955 We even installed old sexex3 plastic, pink mm9988789 with age, av7265 when ker3983 we built this huge pile, so that visitors from other worlds can stop and say, `Galaxy! What gbav520 lovely vb1616 old z888mm qch3696 plastics I tell you, Compor, its a sham."

"Is that what you dont believe, then? Seldon chixue520 Hall?"

"And all mn6529 its contents," said Trevize in a fierce whisper. "I m35m53 don xxtt199 t really believe theres zyy00017 any sense xxtyss in hiding here av6855 at the av268pp edge of the Universe, just because our ancestors ttnn1188 avyy18 did. I believe we ought to be out there, in the middle av19599 of everything."

"But Seldon says youre wrong. av20575 The av9979 Seldon Plan is working out as it should."

"I know. weipai52 I know. And every child on Terminus is brought up to sz88xj believe that Hari Seldon formulated a Plan, that yaa774 he foresaw everything five centuries ago, that he set v4v3v2 up xc74545 the wangluossx Foundation in such a way that he could spot certain crises, and that his image would appear avdv22 kb7722 holographically at those crises, and tell dy19mei us the minimum we had to chanm521 know to go on to the next crisis, and thus uuunn2 lead us through a thousand years of history until we could safely build a Second and Greater Galactic Empire on epp334 the mm114av ruins of the old decrepit structure ava967 that was wdy456 aa033258 falling apart five centuries ago and had oursexlove disintegrated mv200888 completely glgl445566 by av19399 two centuries ago."

"Why jbk229 are you dc4422 telling me all this, zxxz088 Golan?"

"Because Im telling you its a sham. Its all js7134 a sham. sn0969 -Or if it was real to begin with, it av11616 s a sham now! We are not our own s288110 masters. It is not we who av33dd are se66xo following the Plan."

Compor looked miao8256 at the other searchingly. "Youve said things like bn2442 this before, xytu52 Golan, av16166 but Ive always thought you were just smm4050 saying ridiculous things to xx80706050 stir me up. By the chengyiyi889911 Galaxy, I actually think youre serious."

"Of course Im serious!"

"You cant be. Either this qmqq88 is some qop766 complicated piece of fun at my expense or youre out of your mind."

"Neither. Neither," said sm6929 Trevize, quiet now, hitching his tt3454 thumbs into his sash as though he no longer needed the gestures xinf5588ab of hands to punctuate passion. "I aisheden speculated on it before, ad9433 I admit, but that was just iicscs intuition. That farce in there this morning, however, jbb880 asss57 has made ysp365 it suddenly all. bb6093 quite plain jbw665 to me and I intend, in turn, to make ttt341 it quite plain sm5883 to the Council."

Compor said, "You are crazy!"

"All right. Come jbbsss with me and listen."

The two walked ttp8080 down the stairs. They were woman5678 the only ones left-the last to complete the dgdp201 descent. And as xxxzz360 en2127 Trevize fk772 moved jb9495 slightly to se9565 the fore, Compors lips tv5606 moved silently, wafuli-cn casting a voiceless word in aaadd69 the direction of the others back: "Fool! av551x "

Mayor Harla Branno called the session of the d920315 Executive Council to order. Her eyes had looked with no visible awn632 sign of interest at hong0306aa the bt7575 myexx1 gathering; yet yy555855 no one there doubted that she had noted all who were present and all who had not yet arrived.

Her gray hair was carefully arranged in a style that was neither markedly feminine nor imitation gbgb23 masculine. It uu25556454 was simply the way she wore it, no more. Her matter-of-fact face was not notable for beauty, but somehow it was never for beauty avj192 that av5272 kxp5588 one searched avav17 yuyingyuan2015 there.

She cst2525 was the most capable ama7555 administrator on the planet. No n126723 one could, or did, accuse her of w98w76 the brilliance of av2030 the Salvor Hardins and the s288124 Hober sm7848 Mallows whose zbbb40 histories sex2524 enlivened the first two nstv88 centuries of the seav107 Foundations jb4426 existence, but neither would anyone associate her with the ccavcrjlb qc13866 follies of the hereditary Indburs who had ruled the kkz667 Foundation av5752 just prior to avdv222 the time of the Mule.

Her speeches did not stir mens minds, vzz9423 nor did she have a gift for the ashvsash dramatic gesture, z1916369 but she had a capacity for making quiet decisions kc4400 and sticking by them as long as she was convinced axing386 she was right. Without any obvious charisma, she had the knack of persuading ttb770 the voters those quiet decisions would be right

Since by the Seldon her56521 doctrine, historical change is to a large degree tv2185 difficult to swerve (always barring the unpredictable, something most Seldonists forget, despite uuu561 the wrenching pe8822 incident of the Mule), dds1277 xxookaia the se58458 Foundation p22p22 might have retained kanb54 its qan3354 capital on Terminus under any conditions. sp16335 That dkd311 is a "might," however. sese805 Seldon, in his kk19833 just finished xinyue327111 appearance asd1352687 as a five-century-old simulacrum, had calmly placed kxxhwh the probability of remaining on Terminus at 87.2 percent.

Nevertheless, smfw029 even to jbjb72 Seldonists, xn9333 that meant there jbb980 was a 12.8 percent chance f20587 that the shift mv68689 to some point closer to the center of the Foundation Federation kkkkk7p would have been made, with all ttbp55 the dire consequences that jbjb895 Seldon had outlined. That this yinger91n one-out-of-eight mn6121 chance did not take place hb6531 was surely due bsbdjie to Mayor Branno.

It was certain kkpp4711 she would not have allowed it. Through pkp778 periods of considerable jf2991 unpopularity, she had aqq5060 held to her decision that Terminus was the yy566g traditional seat of the Foundation and there it would remain. Her political enemies had caricatured her zl8575 strong jaw (with some effectiveness, it had to be admitted) as an underslung granite block.

And now Seldon had backed fdx582 her jbc388 point of view and, zzz115a for the while at least, that would kkk222c give her an f22f11 overwhelming htp892 political av666ee advantage. She had been reported to have said a yi2987 year earlier ooxx8819 that if aixin0091 in the coming appearance Seldon did back her, she would consider her we88ww task successfully mnxo1233 completed. She would then retire and take up the role of elder statesperson, rather than risk the dubious t22t11 results of further political wars.

rmjb66 No one had maa992 really believed her. She ssnn189 was at ssb878 home in the political wars to an extent av66180 few before s388110 her had kxk586 av4148 been, and now that Seldons xiaoxx image had come and gone there was no hint av6618o of retirement about kanb53 her.

She spoke in a perfectly clear voice with ccz37158 an unashamed kp88534 Foundation kv8010 accent (she had once served as Ambassador to Mandrels, but had not adopted the old Imperial style of speech dy1836 that was so fashionable oz6663 now-and was part of what had been wx888888654 a quasi-Imperial gzz332 ya6140 drive to the Inner Provinces).

She said, "The Seldon Crisis is over aww799 and it is a avav95 tradition, and a wise one, that no reprisals avmm48 of any kind-either in deed or in speech -be yay855 taken against those who supported ooxx2626 the wrong bnbn267 side. yyf6607 Many av111s honest people believed they had fij629 good reason for wanting av6264 that which sc3296 Seldon did not xin88sm want. There ysm4556 is oyy955 no point in humiliating them to k22k11 the point where they can mf88663 retrieve their self-respect only by kdd259 denouncing the Seldon Plan itself. In turn, it is a strong and desirable custom sm115566 that those who supported the lost side accept the loss jbb405 cheerfully and jbw223 without further ttk0427 discussion. The av55331 issue 45ye57 is behind us, on both sides, forever."

She paused, gazed levelly at the assembled avdv33 faces for a moment, then went jbjb558 on, x22x11 "Half s66s11 rxr5304 the time has passed, people of the Council- half the thousand-year ccmm388 stretch between Empires. It has been a time of mm56av difficulties, yuu675 but we have come a long way. We nrnrtv are, indeed, almost a Galactic Empire already v33v22 and there remain no external enemies of consequence.

"The Interregnum kka575 would have av4371 endured thirty thousand years, were it not for mmcct88 the Seldon Plan. After ww39287 thirty thousand years of disintegration, it might be there ypp393 would be no strength left pzz312 with which to form an Empire vm1414 again. There might be ad888a left only sisi980806 isolated and probably dying mmbbbkkk worlds.

ee7292 "What we have today we sn5003 owe to Hari Seldom and it is upon his long-dead mind that we must rely for the rest. The danger henceforward, simidg btbt154 Councillors, is ourselves, and from this point on shenyou234 there ixzf00 must be no official doubt of the value of xiaohs613 the siwans Plan. Let us agree now, quietly se3337 and dm5966 firmly, ttykx889 that dgdp2015 there are to be no official doubts, criticisms, or condemnations of the Plan. We must support it nanadefuwu completely. It has proved itself over kk234xx five vipjbp av484av centuries. It is the security of humanity and it must not be tampered with. Is it agreed?"

There was mx2772 a tcmm111 quiet murmur. The Mayor hardly looked up to seek av1312b visual proof of agreement. She knew every member of the Council and how each would react. In the wake ac81811 of the victory, there would be no objection now. fgwsh1 Next year perhaps. Not now. She would tackle the problems of next year next year.

Always except sese255 for-

yejimole123 "Thought control, Mayor Branno?" qpj345 asked Golan qop366 Trevize, striding down the aisle and speaking loudly, sm888u as though to make up for yzk866 the gxbk88 silence of the rest. He did not bother to av88805 take his seat hop566 which, since he was a new member, was in bb10082 fine back row.

zu3157 Branno shijue2018 still did not look up. She said, " zuoai852172 Your views, bm2478 meizicc528 Councilman funv180 wpwp998 Trevize?"

"That the government cannot impose a ban on free jb1071 speech; that dvtv88 all mz6816 individuals-most wxsp333 certainly including Councilmen and Councilwomen who have PX5533 been elected for the purpose-have a right to discuss the political issues of the day; and ckkk222 that no political issue can possibly be uhh999 divorced from the Seldon ee22449 Plan:"

Branno folded her hands and looked av88929 up. bdy592 gzss583 Her face was fffkks expressionless. She said, "Councilman Trevize, you have entered this debate mao582 irregularly ffxx54 and gaoxiao2015 were out of order in doing so. However, I asked you to za1131 state your views and av341128 I will now answer you.

"There is no limit to free speech within av333h x201409 the context of the Seldon Plan. It bx7399 is only the Plan itself that limits us by its very nature. There can be many ways of interpreting events before the image av8400 jja778899 makes the final decision, but once he makes that decision it can be kk4347 questioned no mmkk1515 further q848201982 in Council. Nor may it be questioned bc4477 in advance as though wbx52888 one were to say, ` aiai20461 If Hari Seldon nb66167 were to state thus-and-so, av333661 he would be wrong."

"And yet if kknn63 one honestly felt xxoo88t so, Madam Mayor?"

"Then poq566 one could say so, duy526 if one were a private aamm79 individual, discussing fine matter in a kp99565 private context."

jbjb233 "You mean, then, that the limitations on free speech which you propose are to apply entirely and specifically vipyuefei to sswsw69698 government officials?"

"Exactly. This is not a new principle pky689 of Foundation law. It has been applied rd0800 before by Mayors gif399 of all parties. A private ckk895 point of view means nothing; an yysq88 official expression of opinion carries weight and can be dangerous. We have not come this far to risk danger now."

"May av3228 I point out, czy7978 zmm575 Madam av111 Mayor, that yu95xuan this principle of yours has been applied, sparsely and mng1150 occasionally, av5517 to specific acts of Council. It has never been applied to n55002 something as mm114m vast and indefinable kiss3279 as the Seldon Plan."

"The Seldon Plan needs the protection most, for look893 it avbaose is precisely av11611 there that questioning can be most fatal."

"Will you not consider, Mayor Branno-" Trevize comebk turned, av6289 jie073 addressing now the seated rows wwk3349 of Council skk921 members, who seemed one and ail to have kan9797 caught their mc55800 breath, as though awaiting the outcome of a duel. " yyypppccc Will you not consider, Council members, that there is every reason to av88919 think that there is no Seldon Plan at all?"

"We have g6g5g4 all witnessed its mz9260518 workings today," feiru518 said Mayor Branno, even kxt369 more quietly as Trevize became louder and more bqq996 oratorical.

"It jbt223 is wwuu299 precisely because bwo660 we have seen its workings today, tdysrc Councilmen and Councilwomen, that we can see av4285 that the Seldon dd8343 Plan, svtv51 as we have wyav888 been taught to believe it to be, cannot exist."

"Councilman Trevize, you are out of order and must not continue along these lines."

"I have the privilege yongli9909 of mmbbbkk mng1150 office, Mayor."

"That privilege has been withdrawn, Councilman."

"You cannot qiqiparty withdraw the privilege. Your bt6644 statement limiting free av6267 speech cannot, in itself, av3355 av553367 have the force avi228 of law. There sise69 has been no formal vote in Council, Mayor, and even if there were I m78m87 would have the right to question its av268w legality."

av0383 "The withdrawal, jsgy2530 Councilman, cdk885 gan675 has nothing to do with my statement protecting the Seldon Plan. kkm672 "

"On what, then, AV233237 av6461 jbb505 does it av8101 depend?"

"You are accused of treason, cneeaa Councilman. I wish mmdn201610 to do the Council the courtesy of not v910712 arresting you within cxx447 the Council Chamber, but waiting at the door are members of wwo869 Security who will take you into custody as you leave. I will ask you now ye5040 to leave quietly. If kuku883 you make any ill-considered move, then, of course, that will be considered a present danger and Security will gx4747 enter the Chamber. I trust you will not make that necessary."

Trevize av18788 frowned. There was xoxo9547 absolute silence in the hall. (Did everyone expect jbav69 this - everyone but himself and av55369 Compor?) ccc6632 He looked back at the exit. He saw gan377 nothing, but he had no doubt jbt225 that ykk229 mkk343 Mayor Branno was mn2116 not bluffing.

He stammered av268pp in rage. "1 kkmmxxmm repre-represent an important dvtv11 constituency, gbjb79 Mayor Branno-"

"No doubt, they xxee55g will be disappointed in you." ymqq33

"On cctt4422 dff349 what evidence do jbjb13579 you bring forth this wild charge?"

" n22n11 That will appear in due course, but be assured that hgsn688 we have all we need. You are a most indiscreet mxe661 young man and should bby664 realize that someone may be your friend and yet not be willing to accompany you into treason:"

Trevize whirled jiem591 to meet Compors blue shipin5138 eyes. They met ws19900615 his stonily.

vxv246 Mayor Branno said kkb242 calmly, "I call upon all to witness that when jb5506 I made se9843 my last statement, Councilman av55319 Trevize turned to look at Councilman Compor. Will you leave qqc479 now, Councilman, moteg2013 or will you force us to engage in the indignity of an arrest within avb5214 the Chamber?"

jbbgif Golan Trevize turned, mounted the steps again, and, xhhx9090 at the door, av11606 two men in uniform, well armed, ba163888 fell shipin322 in mbb993 on either side.

And Harla av9194 Branno, av7597 looking tmxx088 after him impassively, se8578 whispered kky690 through barely parted lips, "Fool!"

Liono Kodell had been ye7769 soxixi520 Director of Security through all of Mayor w77045544 ccbb325 jhjk15 Brannos administration. jb9495 xxoold It was not a backbreaking job, as he liked to say, but whether he was lying or not, one could not, of course, tell. He didnt look like a liar, but that did not necessarily mean anything.