[Back Cover]

"The Third Men...

Since it climbed down from the trees and out of the caves, the race that became man has been suspicious of innovators, has scoffed at new discoveries, persecuted the great thinkers---but eventually, kicking, screaming and fighting, has had to accept the effects of new thinking.

Twice such effects had brought mankind to the edge of extinction, twice men had climbed back.

Now, far in the future, the Third Men preserved an ancient, outdated culture with fanatic and bloody determination."