An Introduction to a Biology 



and each party said, " We are right " ; and each party said, 

 ' You are wrong." But Peturcha said, " Both may be 

 right," and he found favour neither with the life-measurers 

 nor with the priest-followers. And the wizards departed 

 from the banks of the sluggish river, without having laid 

 bare the marvel. And Peturcha came back to the banks 

 of another river, whose waters were black and sluggish, 

 and on whose banks there are many huts ; and though 

 the huts are black the dwellers in them are not sluggish. 

 He came back to the wizard who was his chief, the chief who 

 by the other river sat upon the fence-work and was not 

 sealed a priest-follower, and was not sealed a life-measurer. 

 And Peturcha, who was likewise not sealed, sent forth word 

 saying, " There are two ways of busying with the marvel : 

 the way of the wizards of the dead, and this is done by 

 life-measurers; and the way of the wizards of the living, 

 and this is done by the priest-followers ; it is for a man 

 to choose which way he will pursue; but if he thinks the 

 way which he chooses not is wrong, his thoughts are 

 wrong. There is no strife between the two ways." But 

 save from a few there came no answer. 



These things happened in the days when civilisation, 

 rising in the east, had not spread over the face of the earth. 



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