 Which best describes the role of history and faith in this story?
Every writer must seek his own Flowery Kingdom in imagination's wide demesne, and if that search can begin and end on Earth his problem has been greatly simplified. A one-time Air Force officer, he has turned to fantasy in his lighter moments, to bring us such brightly sparkling little gems as this. But its small, mischievous pilots had a rendezvous with destiny—on Earth. Without this coefficient to give us control, we would have lacked a workable equation when we set about putting the first moon rocket around those extraordinary engines of ours, which were still in the undeveloped blueprint stage. I had to figure everything into it—diameter of the nozzle, sharpness of the edge, the velocity of approach to the point of discharge, atomic weight and structure— Oh, there is so much of this that if you're not a nuclear engineer yourself it's certain to weary you. Perhaps you had better take my word for it that without this equation—correctly stated, mind you—mankind would be well advised not to make a first trip to the moon. Not children, but a group of little people, hard at work. I had seen them first as a boy of eight, and then, very briefly again, on my tenth birthday. Or so the legends affirmed, though I've wondered often about the truth of them. Yet without reaching a decision in so many words I knew suddenly that I had to talk to them.
 It is both family history and faith in the truth of the little people that lets Houlihan interact with them
 It is both family history and faith in the truth of the little people that lets Houlihan interact with them  It is with knowlege of family history and some faith that Houlihan is able to decieve the little people into trusting him  It is Houlihan's faith and belief in the existence of fantastical creatures that lets him see the little people  Houlihan has heard about the little people in reading up on family history and this is why he can see him