 What is the best representation of the significance of the boy who falls sick at the end?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1957. "He's gone completely hay-wire. Nobody's been able to get near him for three weeks, and now at six o'clock this morning he decides he's leaving the Farm. "So you bring him down here," said Lessing sourly. Lessing nodded at Dorffman and stepped into an adjoining room with him. The first was from Roberts Bros., announcing another shift of deadline on the book, and demanding the galley proofs two weeks earlier than scheduled. As director of psionic research at the Hoffman Medical Center, he had long since learned how administrative detail could suck up daytime hours. And now, as the book approached publication date, Lessing wondered if he would ever really get back to work again. It bore the letterhead of the International Psionics Conference: Dear Dr. Lessing: "A Theory of Psionic Influence on Infant and Child Development." And they would find it a light shining brightly in the darkness, a guide to the men who were floundering in the jungle of a strange and baffling new science. When they were finally forced to recognize that this great and powerful force did indeed exist in human minds, with unimaginable potential if it could only be unlocked, they had plunged eagerly into the search, and found themselves in a maddening bramble bush of contradictions and chaos. They were trying to study phenomena which made no sense, observing things that defied logic. And the more they struggled, the thicker and more impenetrable the bramble bush became— But now David Lessing had discovered a pathway through that jungle, a theory to work by— At his elbow the intercom buzzed. "I think you'd better wait before you do that," Melrose said sharply, "because I'm planning to take you apart at the Conference next month unless I like everything I see and hear down here today. "I want to hear this fairy tale you're about to publish in the name of 'Theory'," Melrose said. "As for our 'fairy tale', we happen to have a staggering body of evidence that says that it's true." "If the papers you've already published are a preview, we think it's false as Satan." "So far, we haven't found any way to set up logical controls," said Melrose. "We haven't been energetic enough to find an orthodox approach that got us anywhere.
 It shows that Dr. Melrose could have been right, because this is not consistent with Dr. Lessing's prior conclusions
 It shows that Dr. Melrose could have been right, because this is not consistent with Dr. Lessing's prior conclusions  The incident is proof that Dr. Lessing should give up on his work  It means Dr. Lessing's book needs another round of edits which will take a lot of time  It shows Dr. Melrose where the weak points in Dr. Lessing's work is