Hell or heaven I never heard formulated, nor their equivalents; unless that existence in the Shining One's domain could serve for either.

Over all this was Thanaroa, remote; unheeding, but still maker and ruler of all--an absentee First Cause personified! Thanaroa seemed to be the one article of belief in the creed of the soldiers--Rador, with his reverence for the Ancient Ones, was an exception.

Whatever there was, indeed, of high, truly religious impulse among the Murians, this far, High God had.

I found this exceedingly interesting, because it had long been my theory--to put the matter in the shape of a geometrical formula--that the real attractiveness of gods to man increases uniformly according to the square of their distance--W.

T.G.
[2] I find that I have neglected to explain the working of these interesting mechanisms that were telephonic, dictaphonic, telegraphic in one.