Technic History Highlights

Since part of The Day Of Their Return, Chapter 3, is one of my favourite passages in Poul Anderson's Technic History, do I have a single most preferred passage? Maybe not. Particular highlights are:

"How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson," introducing Adzel and the Earth of the Solar Commonwealth;

"Lodestar," introducing Coya Conyon and Mirkheim, disclosing the main conflict in Technic civilization and featuring the dramatic confrontation between van Rijn and Falkayn;

Mirkheim, a good novel, a good political novel and a good sf novel;

Hloch's main introduction to The Earth Book of Stormgate;

the opening paragraph of The People of the Wind, VI, introducing the Avalonian city of Centauri which is the setting for a meeting between Tabitha Falkayn and Christopher Holm.