This equipped them for such purposes as forming courts to put humankind on trial, as they do in such literary fantasies as the second volume of Cyrano de Bergerac???s L???autre monde (1662)???an idea recapitulated in such twentieth-century works as Geoffrey Dearmer???s They Chose to Be Birds (1935) and James Blish???s Midsummer Century (1972), and tacitly echoed in such stories of *Nature???s rebe