"But if we are to proceed on the previous record we can be sure that they have now ascended to a still higher culture pattern. I would suggest that you not lift the force field that surrounds our planet till you have matured enough to be able to meet your earth cousins on an equal footing. "An inner-directed culture places a terrific premium on fatherhood. That is why you have been raised with such a high opinion of fathers and why all your power symbols are in terms of fatherhood. "In the next step which you are to take, fatherhood and motherhood will be equated properly and there will be no further emphasis on what has been called the battle of the sexes. "The battle of the sexes will become not an armed truce, but an equal sharing of what is best in mankind. "I have left directions as to how you may contact the inter-planetary economy but I suggest you wait till the time is ripe before taking that step. "And now I am about to go out of phase. At last ... at long last ... I thought it would never come...." The eyes closed and the robot was still. It never spoke again. Pat ran to Comstock's side. His waiting arms engulfed her as they stood, looking deeply into each other's eyes, savoring their moment of triumph, and thinking with delight of what the future held. Comstock said, "I love you." It was the first time in five hundred years that the air of that planet had heard those words said in a tone that meant by love--sharing and trust and hope and peace, and mutual sacrifice that something bigger and better might come from that love. THE END