CHAPTER THREE 



More Problems 



I 



NY one looking for proofs to sub- 

 stantiate his theory seldom has 

 trouble in finding them. Still, I 

 think that it will require no strain- 

 iing of the imagination or conven- 

 ient warping of facts to arrive at least somewhere 

 in the neighborhood of the truth regarding the why 

 and the wherefore of the ophiuran. If the reader 

 has followed me in the preceding chapter with any 

 interest at all, he cannot have failed to perceive 

 that it is in a sense incomplete. But the history 

 of the mere further physical development of the 

 serpent-star can be told in very few words, and at 

 best it probably would be attractive to only a few 

 others beside the technical person. 



The background of that history, however, is 

 quite another matter. It is absorbing alike to all ; 

 it reads like a romance. It is in reality a romance 



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