A Report to an Academy-2

(FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS of the Late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston)

“Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival... a survival of a hugely remote period when... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds....”

—Algernon Blackwood.

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