Produced by Greg Weeks, Geoffrey Kidd, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN BY MARK CLIFTON NOVELS Eight Keys To Eden They'd Rather Be Right* The Forever Machine* NON-FICTION BOOK Opportunity Unlimited NOVELETTES Remembrance and Reflection How Allied What Thin Partitions** Sense From Thought Divide Star, Bright Hide! Hide! Witch! A Woman's Place Clerical Error What Now, Little Man? Do Unto Others SHORT STORIES What Have I Done? The Conqueror Kenzie Report Bow Down To Them Reward For Valour Progress Report** Crazy Joey** We're Civilized** Solution Delayed** ARTICLES It Can't Be Done The Dread Tomato Affliction * _In collaboration with Frank Riley_ ** _In collaboration with Alex Apostolides_ EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN by Mark Clifton Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York 1960 _All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental._ Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60-9470 Copyright © 1960 by Mark Clifton All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. Variant and dialect spellings remain as printed. Bold text is shown as =bold=. To Charles Steinberg who made writing possible for me EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN SEVEN DOORS TO SEVEN ROOMS OF THOUGHT =1= Accept the statement of Eminent Authority without basis, without question. =2= Disagree with the statement without basis, out of general contrariness. =3= Perhaps the statement is true, but what if it isn't? How then to account for the phenomenon? =4= How much of the statement rationalizes to suit man's purpose that he and his shall be ascendant at the center of things? =5= What if the minor should become major, the recessive dominant, the obscure prevalent? =6= What if the statement were reversible, that which is considered effect is really cause? =7= What if the natural law perceived in one field also operates unperceived in all other phases of science? What if there be only one natural law manifesting itself, as yet, to us in many facets because we cannot apperceive the whole, of which we have gained only the most elementary glimpses, with which we can cope only at the crudest level? =And are those still other doors, yet undefined, on down the corridor?= 1