 What is the significance of the story's title?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1957. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] 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. The first was from Roberts Bros., announcing another shift of deadline on the book, and demanding the galley proofs two weeks earlier than scheduled. 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. "Within the stronghold of psionic research at last. "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. But mostly, I want to see just what in psionic hell you're so busy making yourself an Authority about." "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. "Until we had to throw it out. "In fact, you can't really be certain that your instruments are measuring the children at all. A phenomenon exists.
 It points to the confusion around the data and potential conclusions in this field of inquiry
 It shows how disorganized Dr. Lessing is, and how his mind cannot stay on a single path  It signals the importance of outdoor activity for the development of the children being studied  It points to the confusion around the data and potential conclusions in this field of inquiry  It represents the environment of The Farm, where the special children live