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Because surrounding peoples of this earth would not assimilate 

 with her own colonists in the part of the earth that we now call 

 England. 



I don't know that there has ever been more nearly just, reason- 

 able, or logical wrath, in this earth's history if there is no other 

 wrath. 



The wrath of Azuria, because the other peoples of this earth would 

 not turn blue to suit her. 



History is a department of human delusion that interests us. We 

 are able to give a little advancement to history. In the vitrified 

 forts of a few parts of Europe, we find data that the Humes and 

 Gibbons have disregarded. 



The vitrified forts surrounding England, but not in England. 



The vitrified forts of Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, and Bohemia. 



Or that, once upon a time, with electric blasts, Azuria tried to 

 swipe this earth clear of the peoples who resisted her. 



The vast blue bulk of Azuria appeared in the sky. Clouds turned 

 green. The sun was formless and purple in the vibrations of wrath 

 that were emanating from Azuria. The whitish, or yellowish, or 

 brownish peoples of Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, and Bohemia fled 

 to hill tops and built forts. In a real existence, hill tops, or easiest 

 accessibility to an aerial enemy, would be the last choice in refuges. 

 But here, in quasi-existence, if we're accustomed to run to hill tops, 

 in times of danger, we run to them just the same, even with danger 

 closest to hill tops. Very common in .quasi-existence: attempt to 

 escape by running closer to the pursuing. 



They built forts, or already had forts, on hill tops. 



Something poured electricity upon them. 



The stones of these forts exist to this day, vitrified, cr melted and 

 turned to glass. 



The archaeologists have jumped from one conclusion to another, 

 like the "rapid chamois" we read of a while ago, to account for 

 vitrified forts, always restricted by the commandment that unless 

 their conclusions conformed to such tenets as Exclusionism, of the 

 System, they would be excommunicated. So archaeologists, in their 

 medieval dread of excommunication, have tried to explain vitrified 

 forts in terms of terrestrial experience. We find in their insufficien- 

 cies the same old assimilating of all that could be assimilated, and 

 disregard for the unassimilable, conventionalizing into the explana- 

 tion that vitrified forts were made by prehistoric peoples who built 

 vast fires often remote from wood-supply to melt externally, and 



