Note 3 — Chapter IV
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Follows another reference which would have interested Dr. Aiken:
"I accept that, in the past ... inhabitants of other worlds have—dropped here, hopped here, wafted, sailed, flown, motored—walked here, for all I know—been pulled here, been pushed; have come singly, have come in enormous numbers; have visited occasionally, have visited periodically for hunting, trading, replenishing harems, mining; have been unable to stay here, have established colonies here; have been lost here; far-advanced peoples, or things, and primitive peoples or whatever they were: white ones, black ones, yellow ones—
"I have a very convincing datum that the ancient Britons were blue ones. Of course we are told by anthropologists that they only painted themselves blue, but in our own advanced anthropology, they were veritable blue ones—
"Annals of Philosophy, 14-51: Note of a blue child born in England. That's atavism!"—from The Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort.—Ed.