Eight Keys to Eden

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1>EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN</h1> <hr /> <div class="bk1"> <h2><small>BY MARK CLIFTON</small></h2> <p class="pa1">NOVELS<br/> Eight Keys To Eden<br/> They'd Rather Be Right*<br/> The Forever Machine*</p> <p class="pa1">NON-FICTION BOOK<br/> Opportunity Unlimited</p> <p class="pa1">NOVELETTES<br/> Remembrance and Reflection<br/> How Allied<br/> What Thin Partitions**<br/> Sense From Thought Divide<br/> Star, Bright<br/> Hide! Hide! Witch!<br/> A Woman's Place<br/> Clerical Error<br/> What Now, Little Man?<br/> Do Unto Others</p> <p class="pa1">SHORT STORIES<br/> What Have I Done?<br/> The Conqueror<br/> Kenzie Report<br/> Bow Down To Them<br/> Reward For Valour<br/> Progress Report**<br/> Crazy Joey**<br/> We're Civilized**<br/> Solution Delayed**</p> <p class="pa1">ARTICLES<br/> It Can't Be Done<br/> The Dread Tomato Affliction</p> <p>* <i>In collaboration with Frank Riley</i><br/> ** <i>In collaboration with Alex Apostolides</i></p> </div> <hr /> <h1>EIGHT KEYS<br/> TO EDEN</h1> <h2><small>by</small><br/> Mark Clifton</h2> <p class="hd2">Doubleday &amp; Company, Inc.<br/> Garden City, New York<br/> 1960</p> <hr /> <div class="bk1" style="width: 22em;"><p><i>All of the characters in this book<br/> are fictitious, and any resemblance<br/> to actual persons, living or dead,<br/> is purely coincidental.</i></p> <p class="pa2">Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60-9470<br/> Copyright &copy; 1960 by Mark Clifton<br/> All Rights Reserved<br/> Printed in the United States of America<br/> First Edition</p> </div> <div class="trn"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> 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.</div> <hr /> <p class="center">To<br/> <br/> Charles Steinberg<br/> <br/> who made writing possible for me</p> <hr /> <h1><small>EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN</small></h1> <hr /> <h2>SEVEN DOORS TO SEVEN ROOMS OF THOUGHT</h2> <div class="blockquot"><p class="pa3"><span class="sp1">1</span> Accept the statement of Eminent Authority without basis, without question.</p> <p class="pa3"><span class="sp1">2</span> Disagree with the statement without basis, out of general contrariness.</p> <p class="pa3"><span class="sp1">3</span> Perhaps the statement is true, but what if it isn't? How then to account for the phenomenon?</p> <p class="pa3"><span class="sp1">4</span> How much of the statement rationalizes to suit man's purpose that he and his shall be ascendant at the center of things?</p> <p class="pa3"><span class="sp1">5</span> What if the minor should become major, the recessive dominant, the obscure prevalent?</p> <p class="pa3"><span class="sp1">6</span> What if the statement were reversible, that which is considered effect is really cause?</p> <p class="pa3"><span class="sp1">7</span> 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?</p> </div> <div class="pa2"><p class="center"><b><big>And are those still other doors, yet undefined,<br/> on down the corridor?</big></b></p> </div> <hr /><p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />