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Oro Speaks and Bastin Argues.
The reader of what I have written, should there ever be such a person, may find the record marvelous, and therefore rashly conclude that because it is beyond experience, it could not be.

It is not a wise deduction, as I think Bickley would admit today, because without doubt many things are which surpass our extremely limited experience.

However, those who draw the veil from the Unknown and reveal the New, must expect incredulity, and accept it without grumbling.

Was that not the fate, for instance, of those who in the Middle Ages, a few hundred years ago, discovered, or rather rediscovered the mighty movements of those constellations which served Oro for an almanac?
But the point I want to make is that if the sceptic plays a Bickleyan part as regards what has been written, it seems probable that his attitude will be accentuated as regards that which it still remains for me to write.