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his mistake is in that he regarded "homogeneousness" as nega- 

 tive. 



I began with a notion of some one other world, from which ob- 

 jects and substances have fallen to this earth; which had, or which, 

 to less degree, has a tutelary interest in this earth; which is now 

 attempting to communicate with this earth modifying, because of 

 data which will pile up later, into acceptance that some other world 

 is not attempting but has been, for centuries, in communication with 

 a sect, perhaps, or & secret society, or certain esoteric ones of this 

 earth's inhabitants. 



I lose a great deal of hypnotic power in not being able to con- 

 centrate attention upon some one other world. 



As I have admitted before I'm intelligent, as contrasted with the 

 orthodox. I haven't the aristocratic disregard of a New York curator 

 or an Eskimo medicine-man. 



I have to dissipate myself in acceptance of a host of other worlds: 

 size of the moon, some of them: one of them, at least, tremendous 

 thing: we'll take that up later. Vast, amorphous aerial regions, to 

 which such definite words as "worlds" and "planets" seem inappli- 

 cable. And artificial constructions that I have called "super-con- 

 structions": one of them about the size of Brooklyn, I should say, 

 off hand. And one or more of them wheel-shaped things, a goodly 

 number of square miles in area. 



I think that earlier in this book, before we liberalized into em- 

 bracing everything that comes along, your indignation, or indiges- 

 tion would have expressed in the notion that, if this were so, 

 astronomers would have seen these other worlds and regions and vast 

 geometric constructions. You'd have had that notion: you'd have 

 stopped there. 



But the attempt to stop is saying "enough" to the insatiable. In 

 cosmic punctuation there are no periods: illusion of periods is in- 

 complete view of colons and semi-colons. 



We can't stop with the notion that if there were such phenomena, 

 astronomers would have seen them. Because of our experience with 

 suppression and disregard, we suspect, before we go into the sub- 

 ject at all, that astronomers have seen them; that navigators and 

 meteorologists have seen them; that individual scientists and other 

 trained observers have seen them many times 



That it is the System that has excluded data of them. 



As to the Law of Gravitation, and astronomers' formulas, re- 

 member that these formulas worked out in the time of La Place as 



