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officer might bestow on the bows and arrows of the Chinese。                     In another 

department there were models of vehicles and vessels worked by  steam�察�

and of an air´balloon which might have been constructed by Montgolfier。 

;Such�察─�said Zee�察�with an air of meditative wisdom´ ;such were the feeble 

triflings    with   nature   of   our   savage    forefathers�察   �ere  they   had    even   a 

glimmering perception of the properties of vril� ─�

     This young Gy was a magnificent specimen of the muscular force to 

which the females of her country attain。             Her features were beautiful�察�like 

those of all her race�此�never in the upper world have I seen a face so grand 

and so faultless�察�but her devotion to the severer studies had given to her 

countenance        an   expression      of   abstract    thought     which     rendered     it 

somewhat stern when in repose�察�and such a sternness became formidable 

when observed in connection with her ample shoulders and lofty stature。 

She was tall even for a Gy�察�and I saw her lift up a cannon as easily as I 

could   lift   a   pocket´pistol。    Zee   inspired   me   with   a   profound   terror´   a 



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terror   which   increased  when   we   came   into   a   department   of the   museum 

appropriated to models of contrivances worked by the agency of vril�察�for 

here�察�merely  by a   certain play  of her   vril staff�察 �she herself   standing at   a 

distance�察    �she   put   into   movement       large   and    weighty     substances。      She 

seemed to endow them with intelligence�察�and to make them 72comprehend 

and   obey  her   command。          She   set   complicated   pieces   of   machinery   into 

movement�察       �arrested     the   movement       or   continued      it�察 �until�察 �within     an 

incredibly  short   time�察  �various   kinds   of   raw   material   were   reproduced   as 

symmetrical        works     of   art�察  �complete      and    perfect。     Whatever        effect 

mesmerism   or   electro´biology   produces   over   the   nerves   and   muscles   of 

animated objects�察�this young Gy produced by the motions of her slender 

rod over the springs and wheels of lifeless mechanism。 

     When       I  mentioned       to  my     companions       my     astonishment       at  this 

influence   over   inanimate   matter´   while   owning   that�察  �in our   world�察  �I   had 

witnessed phenomena which showed that over certain living organisations 

certain other living organisations could establish an influence genuine in 

itself�察  �but   often   exaggerated   by   credulity   or   craft´   Zee�察  �who   was   more 

interested in such subjects than her father�察�bade me stretch forth my hand�察�

and   then�察  �placing   it   beside   her   own�察  �she   called   my   attention   to   certain 

distinctions of type and character。            In the first place�察�the thumb of the Gy 

��and�察�as I afterwards noticed�察�of all that race�察�male or female�� was much 

larger�察  �at   once   longer   and   more   massive�察  �than   is   found   with   our   species 

above ground。         There is almost�察�in this�察�as great a difference as there is 

between the thumb of a man and that of a gorilla。                    Secondly�察�the palm is 

proportionally thicker than ours´ the texture of the skin infinitely finer and 

softer´ its average warmth is greater。             More remarkable than all this�察�is a 

visible    nerve�察   �perceptible     under    the   skin�察  �which    starts   from    the  wrist 

skirting the ball of the thumb�察�and branching�察�fork´like�察�at the roots of the 

fore and middle fingers。           ;With your slight formation of thumb�察─�said the 

philosophical   young   Gy�察   �and   with   the   absence   of   the   nerve   which   you 

find   more   or   less   developed   in   the   hands   of   our   race�察  �you   can   never 

achieve other than imperfect and feeble power over the agency of vril�察�but 

so   far   as   the   nerve   is   concerned�察  �that   is   not   found   in   the   hands   of   our 

earliest progenitors�察�nor in those of the ruder tribes without the pale of the 



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Vril´ya。     It   has   been   slowly   developed   73in   the   course   of   generations�察�

commencing          in   the   early    achievements�察      �and    increasing     with    the 

continuous exercise�察�of the vril power�察�therefore�察�in the course of one or 

two   thousand   years�察  �such   a   nerve   may   possibly   be   engendered   in   those 

higher   beings   of   your   race�察  �who   devote   themselves   to   that   paramount 

science through which is attained command over all the subtler forces of 

nature permeated by vril。          But when you talk of matter as something in 

itself inert and motionless�察�your parents or tutors surely cannot have left 

you so ignorant as not to know that no form of matter is motionless and 

inert�此�every particle is constantly in motion and constantly acted upon by 

agencies�察�of which heat is the most apparent and rapid�察�but vril the most 

subtle�察�and�察�when skilfully wielded�察�the most powerful。                  So that�察�in fact�察�

the current launched by my hand and guided by my will does but render 

quicker and more potent the action which is eternally at work upon every 

particle of matter�察�however inert and stubborn it may seem。                   If a heap of 

metal be not capable of originating a thought of its own�察�yet�察�through its 

internal   susceptibility   to   movement�察  �it   obtains   the   power   to   receive   the 

thought of the intellectual agent at work on it�察�by which�察�when conveyed 

with a sufficient force of the vril power�察�it is as much compelled to obey as 

if it were displaced by a visible bodily force。             It is animated for the time 

being by the soul thus infused into it�察�so that one may almost say that it 

lives and reasons。        Without this we could not make our automata supply 

the place of servants。 

     I was too much in awe of the thews and the learning of the young Gy 

to   hazard   the   risk   of   arguing   with   her。 I   had   read   somewhere   in   my 

schoolboy       days   that   a  wise   man�察   �disputing    with    a  Roman      Emperor�察�

suddenly drew in his horns�察�and when the emperor asked him whether he 

had   nothing   further   to   say   on   his   side   of   the   question�察  �replied�察   �Nay�察�

Caesar�察�there is no arguing against a reasoner who commands ten legions。; 

74 Though I had a secret persuasion that�察�whatever the real effects of vril 

upon     matter�察   �Mr。    Faraday      could    have    proved    her   a   very   shallow 

philosopher  as   to   its   extent   or   its   causes�察 �I  had   no   doubt   that   Zee   could 

have brained all the Fellows of the Royal Society�察�one after the other�察�with 

a blow of her fist。       Every sensible man knows that it is useless to argue 



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with any ordinary female upon matters he comprehends�察�but to argue with 

a Gy seven feet high upon the mysteries of vril�察� as well argue in a desert�察�

and with a simoon� �

     Amid     the   various    departments      to  which    the   vast   building    of  the 

College   of   Sages   was   appropriated�察  �that   which   interested   me   most   was 

devoted to the  archaeology of the Vril´ya�察�and comprised   a very  ancient 

collection of portraits。       In these the pigments and groundwork employed 

were of so durable a nature that even pictures said to be executed at dates 

as   remote   as   those   in   the   earliest   annals   of   the   Chinese�察  �retained   much 

freshness   of   colour。    In   examining 

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