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This does not appeal to Carpenter: he says that this object must 

 have been an ornament. 



According to Brewster, it was not an ornament, but "a true 

 optical lens," 



In that case, in ruins of an old civilization upon this earth, has 

 been found an accursed thing that was, acceptably, not a product 

 of any old civilization indigenous to this earth. 



