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upon this earth, a cult or order, members of which function like 

 bellwethers to the rest of us, or as superior slaves or overseers, direct- 

 ing us in accordance with instructions received from Somewhere 

 else hi our mysterious usefulness. 



But I accept that, in the past, before proprietorship was estab- 

 lished, inhabitants of a host of other worlds have dropped here, 

 hopped here, wafted, sailed, flown, motored walked here, for all 

 I know been pulled here, been pushed; have come singly, have 

 come in enormous numbers; have visited occasionally, have visited 

 periodically for hunting, trading, replenishing harems, mining: have 

 been unable to stay here, have established colonies here, have been 

 lost here; far-advanced peoples, or things, and primitive peoples or 

 whatever they were: white ones, black ones, yellow ones 



I have a very convincing datum that the ancient Britons were 

 blue ones. 



Of course we are told by conventional anthropologists that they 

 only painted themselves blue, but in our own advanced anthropology, 

 they were veritable blue ones 



Annals of Philosophy, 14-51: 



Note of a blue child born in England. 



That's atavism. 



Giants and fairies. We accept them, of course. Or, if we pride 

 ourselves upon being awfully far-advanced, I don't know how to 

 sustain our conceit except by very largely going far back. Science 

 of to-day the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow 

 the superstition of to-day. 



Notice of a stone ax, 17 inches long: 9 inches across broad end. 

 (Proc. Soc. of Ants, of Scotland, 1-9-184.) 



Amer. Antiquarian, 18-60: 



Copper ax from an Ohio mound: 22 inches long; weight 38 

 pounds. 



Amer. Anthropologist, n. s., 8-229: 



Stone ax found at Birchwood, Wisconsin exhibited in the col- 

 lection of the Missouri Historical Society found with "the pointed 

 end embedded hi the soil" for all I know, may have dropped there 

 28 inches long, 14 wide, n thick weight 300 pounds. 



Or the footprints, in sandstone, near Carson, Nevada each print 

 1 8 to 20 inches long. (Amer. Jour. Sci., 3-26-139.) 



These footprints are very clear and well-dfined: reproduction of 

 them in the Journal but they assimilate with the System, like sour 



