The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 38: what you’re looking at

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The Wreck of the South Pole. 31 remind you that there was a high civilization in the past which vanished from the knowledge of your races in other climes. “Coming further down the history of nations you will recall the Hindoos, the people who ‘think,’ who withdraw themselves into themselves and spend long years in medi- tation. You have heard that they have power to do queer things—almost miracles. “They can. This is nothing but the power of thought —of mind. The man who thinks is able to do all things. For mind is supreme. God is mind. The more freedom, the more power you develop in mind, and the nearer you are to God. That is is “That is?” I repeated. He passed over my repetition and continued: “If morality is considered also, soul power is developed by purity.” He said this as if he were reverently quoting from the Bible. And I afterward learned that this strange people considered purity as one of the essentials of man as well as woman, and practiced it. £% “But,” I exclaimed, “you tell me nothing of the strange things which have happened to me in this strange land. Pardon me, but I do not see the connection between your remarks on mind and morals and my being fed and warmed on an iceberg. It does not tell me where I am and who you are.” “You are in the land of Theos. In the suburbs of the capital city of Theon. Jam the ‘Costa.” There you have Connicloool SS (C(O)