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"We cannot limit the types, superhuman or subhuman, that may / / obtain. We can ‘set no bounds to the existence or powers of / / sentient beings' a consideration of the highest importance", / / as well, perhaps, practical as theoretical. "The discovery / / of Superhumans of an exalted kind may be only a question of / / time, and the attainment of knowledge on this head one of the / / most important achievements in the history of races that are to / / come." "The Individual and Reality" (Fawcett).
Something certainly tightened in my throat as we went across that soaking grass towards the building that was half châlet, half farm-house, with steep, heavy roof and wide veranda. The lights beckoned to us through the little windows. I saw a shadow slip across the casement window on the upper floor. And my question was out of its own accord before I could prevent it. My mind held in that moment no other thought at all; my pulses quickened.