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SECOND FOUNDATION
ISAAC ASIMOV
Contents
PROLOGUE
PART I SEARCH BY THE MULE
1. TWO MEN AND THE MULE
First Interlude
2. TWO MEN WITHOUT THE MULE
Second Interlude
3. TWO MEN AND A PEASANT
Third Interlude
4. TWO MEN AND THE ELDERS
Fourth Interlude
5. ONE MAN AND THE MULE
6. ONE MAN, THE MULE – AND ANOTHER
Last Interlude
PART II SEARCH BY THE FOUNDATION
7. ARCADIA
8. SELDON'S PLAN
9. THE CONSPIRATORS
10. APPROACHING CRISIS
11. STOWAWAY
12. LORD
13. LADY
14. ANXIETY
15. THROUGH THE GRID
16. BEGINNING OF WAR
17. WAR
18. GHOST OF A WORLD
19. END OF WAR
20. "I KNOW ..."
21. THE ANSWER THAT SATISFIED
22. THE ANSWER THAT WAS TRUE
 
Prologue
The First Galactic Empire had endured for tens of thousands of years. It had included all the planets of the Galaxy in a centralized rule, sometimes tyrannical, sometimes benevolent, always orderly. Human beings had forgotten that any other form of existence could be.
All except Hari Seldon.
Hari Seldon was the last great scientist of the First Empire. It was he who brought the science of psycho-history to its full development. Psycho-history was the quintessence of sociology, it was the science of human behavior reduced to mathematical equations.
The individual human being is unpredictable, but the reactions of human mobs, Seldon found, could be treated statistically. The larger the mob, the greater the accuracy that could be achieved. And the size of the human masses that Seldon worked with was no less than the population of the Galaxy which in his time was numbered in the quintillions.
It was Seldon, then, who foresaw, against all common sense and popular belief, that the brilliant Empire which seemed so strong was in a state of irremediable decay and decline. He foresaw (or he solved his equations and interpreted its symbols, which amounts to the same thing) that left to itself, the Galaxy would pass through a thirty thousand year period of misery and anarchy before a unified government would rise once more.
He set about to remedy the situation, to bring about a state of affairs that would restore peace and civilization in a single thousand of years. Carefully, he set up two colonies of scientists that he called "Foundations." With deliberate intention, he set them up "at opposite ends of the Galaxy." One Foundation was set up in the full daylight of publicity. The existence of the other, the Second Foundation, was drowned in silence.
In Foundation (Gnome, 1951) and Foundation and Empire (Gnome, 1952) are told the first three ............

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