cepted His father, he states, faced the same choice several years before Leto's birth but picked a different way (The effects on humanity of Muad'Dib's Jihad and Leto's Peace may have to be evaluated before an informed opinion of the better choice can be offered ) He also delivers one of me few sympathetic opinions of Lady Aha Atreides He was in a better position than any other historian to do so not only had lie escaped the possession that befell his aunt by forging an internal alliance in which he was the controlling force (a method which differed from hers less than might be supposed), but he had access to the same ancestral personality that had ruined Alia In Leto's community of voices, the Baron Harkonnen was kept firmly under control, but Leto could appreciate how his aunt had been taken over As a treasure trove of historical data the Journals are completely unparalleled For example, the Oral History abounds with descriptions of the Atreides descendants' extreme sensitivity to melange and its effect on their ancestral memories The reason for this sensitivity had been shrouded in mystery since the earliest centuries of the Lord Leto's reign (at least from the general public, the Bene Gessent Sisterhood, it was said, never forgot it) and not until the Journals were discovered was it relearaed A full description can be found in the entries pertaining to the God Emperor and to his mother, the Lady Chain, but tile phenomenon known as pre-buth was brought about by a combination of genetic factors and maternal addiction to melange Because they were descended from one who had been pre-born, all of the later generations of Atreides possessed the ability to achieve contact with their ' inner voices ' when under the influence of the spice Records found m the Journals indicate that this forced awareness was part of the testing Leto conducted when choosing his Atreides administrators and that nearly a third of those who underwent the spice test died or went mad when the new awareness was thrust upon them (This percentage dropped onl> slightly through millennia of careful breeding, and Leto therefore kept a number of second-choice candidates in reserve whenever testing one of the breeding lines ) The eventual publication of all the Journals and the influx of new findings, will not only affect the scholarly world but also the Oral History, which has served m conjunction with the Stolen Journals as a basis for law and custom on all of the known worlds, will undergo probing reconsideration The Church of the Dmded God, and by extension its billions of followers, has already been profoundly affected by the information un earthed at Dar es Balat, as witnessed by its new directives concerning the status of Holy Sister Qumtmius Violet Chenoeh and Nayla the Betrayer The full effects of the Rakis Hoard on society as we have known it will not be seen in our lifetimes-and possibly not m the lifetimes of many generations of our posterity As regards the