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tivize. Also, if she does she represents universal failure to positivize: 

 her ensuing disorders will translate her to the Negative Absolute. 



Or Science and some of our cursed hard-shelled data. 



One speaks of the tutelarian as if it were something distinct in 

 itself. So one speaks of a tree, a saint, a barrel of pork, the Rocky 

 Mountains. One speaks of missionaries, as if they were positively 

 different, or had identity of their own, or were a species by them- 

 selves. To the Intermediatist, everything that seems to have iden- 

 tity is only attempted identity, and every species is continuous with 

 all other species, or that which is called the specific is only emphasis 

 upon some aspect of the general. If there are cats, they're only 

 emphasis upon universal felinity. There is nothing that does not 

 partake of that of which the missionary, or the tutelary, is the 

 special. Every conversation is a conflict of missionaries, each try- 

 ing to convert the other, to assimilate, or to make the other similar 

 to himself. If no progress be made, mutual repulsion will follow. 



If other worlds have ever in the past had relations with this earth, 

 they were attempted positivizations: to extend themselves, by col- 

 onies, upon this earth; to convert, or assimilate, indigenous inhabi- 

 tants of this earth. 



Or parent-worlds and their colonies here 



Super-Romanimus 



Or where the first Romans came from. 



It's as good as the Romulus and Remus story. 



Super-Israelimus 



Or that, despite modern reasoning upon this subject, there was 

 once something that was super-parental or tutelary to early orientals. 



Azuria, which was tutelary to the early Britons: 



Azuria, whence came the blue Britons, whose descendants grad- 

 ually diluting, like blueing in a wash-tub, where a faucet's turned 

 on, have been most emphasized of sub-tutelarians, or assimilators 

 ever since. 



Worlds that were once tutelarian worlds before this earth be- 

 came sole property of one of them their attempts to convert or 

 assimilate but then the state that comes to all things in their 

 missionary-frustrations unacceptance by all stomachs of some 

 things; rejection by all societies of some units; glaciers that sort 

 over and cast out stones 



Repulsion. Wrath of the baffled missionary. There is no other 

 wrath. All repulsion is reaction to the unassimilable. 



So then the wrath of Azuria ? 



