MORALITY. 



so long in advance must be the god of vengence when 

 measured by distance. The greater the distance the 

 greater his powers. People living at the time of col- 

 lapse undoubtedly knew his standing as a man, but 

 after the passage of the collapse he became powerful. 



After the survivors having passed over the seas 

 in their means of craft to again take up life under new 

 conditions, it is quite likely that the parents of the 

 growing children used the impact of the foreign body 

 as a means of coercion when the children disobeyed. 

 They telling the children that the great one from be- 

 yond would bring about a recurrence of the great 

 catastrophe if they were further disobeyed. The par- 

 ents not meaning to instill the belief within the youth- 

 ful, other than a temporary means of bringing about 

 order. But oblivious of the great effect it would 

 have on mankind, it is very likely they instilled it in 

 that simple way. 



It is not at all likely that the people who survived 

 the impact in the craft, one or many, had any belief of 

 the occurrence occurring other than by the reduction 

 in earthly temperature. Being well versed in the laws 

 of nature, through the millions of years in the cooling 

 process leading up to the loss of propelling power 

 within the earth. 



But as each succeeding generation used the same 

 means in the bringing about of order, and while doing 

 so neglecting the studies of nature, it gradually devel- 

 oped into a kind of religious belief. Children coming 

 into the world generation after generation who never 



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