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and gradual growth — for such people, with such 

 beliefs, it might be easier to account for the beauty 

 spot, because such persons do not have to explain, 

 they can simply saj^ "It is there because it is 

 there." But persons who are gifted with a healthy 





imagination, such as Indians, artists, story writers, 

 poets and boys, need not prove their assertions, 

 they can simply make the claim that these round 

 eye-marks which appear on so many creatures are 

 the thumb-marks of the Great Creator, and in one 

 sense they are, no matter how they may be other- 



