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    What Need of Man?
    What Need of Man?
    What Need of Man?
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    What Need of Man?

    By Harold Calin and Leo Summers

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      What Need of Man? - Harold Calin

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      Title: What Need of Man?

      Author: Harold Calin

      Illustrator: Summers

      Release Date: January 6, 2010 [EBook #30867]

      Language: English

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      WHAT NEED of MAN?

      By HAROLD CALIN

      Illustrated by SUMMERS

      Bannister was a rocket scientist. He started with the premise of testing man's reaction to space probes under actual conditions; but now he was just testing space probes—and man was a necessary evil to contend with.

      hen you are out in a clear night in summer, the sky looks very warm and friendly. The moon is a big pleasant place where it may not be so humid as where you are, and it is lighter than anything you've ever seen. That's the way it is in summer. You never think about space being out there. It's all one big wonderful thing, and you can never really fall off, or have anything bad happen to you. There is just that much more to see. You lie on the grass and look at the sky long enough and you fall into sort of a detached mood. It's suddenly as if you're looking down at the sky and you're lying on a ceiling by some reverse process of gravitation, and everything is absolutely pleasant.

      In winter it's quite another thing, of course. That's because the sky never looks warm. In winter, if you are in a cold climate, the sky doesn't appear at all friendly. It's beautiful, mind you, but never friendly. That is when you see it as it really is. Summer has a way of making it look friendly. The way you see it on a

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