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The finders jumped to the conclusion that the axes had fallen 

 there. 



Another stone ax or wedge-shaped object of worked stone 

 said to have been found in a tree that had been struck by some- 

 thing that looked like lightning. (Thunder Weapons, p. 71.) 



The finder jumped to the conclusion. 



Story told by Blinkenberg, of a woman, who lived near Kulsb- 

 jaergene, Sweden, who found a flint near an old willow "near her 

 house." I emphasize "near her house" because that means familiar 

 ground. The willow had been split by something.- 



She jumped. 



Cow killed by lightning, or by what looked like lightning (Isle 

 of Sa ;k, near Guernsey). The peasant who owned the cow dug up 

 the ground at the spot and found a small greenstone "ax." Blinken- 

 berg says that he jumped to the conclusion that it was this object 

 that had fallen luminously, killing the cow. 



Reliquary, 1867-208: 



A flint ax found by a farmer, after a severe storm described as 

 a "fearful storm" by a signal staff, which had been split by some- 

 thing. I should say that nearness to a signal staff may be considered 

 familiar ground. 



Whether he jumped, or arrived at the conclusion by a more leis- 

 urely process, the farmer thought that the flint object had fallen in 

 the storm. 



In this instance we have a lamentable scientist with us. It's 

 impossible to have positive difference between orthodoxy and heresy : 

 somewhere there must be a merging into each other, or an over- 

 lapping. Nevertheless, upon such a subject as this, it Jaes seem 

 a little shocking. In most works upon ''meteorites, the peculiar, sul- 

 phurous odor of things that fall from the sky is mentioned. Sir 

 John Evans ("Stone Implements," p. 57) sayswith extraordinary 

 reasoning powers, if he could never have thought such a in'ng with 

 ordinary reasoning powers that this flint object "proved to have 

 been the bolt, by its peculiar smell when broken." 



If it did so prove to be, that settles the whole subject. If we 

 prove that only one object of worked stone has fallen from the 

 sky, all piling up of further reports is unnecessary. However, we 

 have already taken the stand that nothing settles anything; that 

 the disputes of ancient Greece are no nearer solution now than they 

 were several thousand years ago all because, in a positive sense, 

 there is nothing to prove or solve or settle. Our object is to be more 



