MORALITY. 



this calculation was perhaps years before the final col- 

 lapse. 



The impending danger being truly imminent and 

 unavoidable tended to corrupt the mankind that next 

 preceded the collapse. They, knowing they were 

 doomed to perish at a given time, providing they lived 

 during the period, tended to lessen their cares for 

 morality and in fact every other earthly care dear to 

 mankind. That condition having been the order of 

 the times for perhaps generations before the final col- 

 lapse. What more natural than the fall of man from 

 his true place as a judge of worldly affairs? What 

 more natural than the last generations before the col- 

 lapse would look upon the man who passed judgment 

 on the day and time of the occurrence as a God, espe- 

 cially when they, through utter disregard of life, had 

 deprived themselves of development along the lines 

 of knowledge capable of accounting for the occur- 

 rence? 



What more natural than that the party calculating 

 the time to a day, when seen from afar, would take 

 on superhuman powers, when weighed in the minds 

 of the ignorant? Of course the conditions would 

 force man to deprive himself of education, knowing 

 the doom was settling over all. What more natural 

 than the man who calculated the day and date, and per- 

 haps location of contact, in advance, may be one hun- 

 dred years, knowing his figures to be true, would in- 

 struct his progeny to a means of saving themselves? 

 He knowing beyond a doubt how heavy a jolt would be 



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