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Octoroon? judahandmicah added this on 10 Nov 2009

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According to Victor Robinson, in his book, "The Don Quixote of Psychiatry", publishedin 1919, Mariana Knapp was a Southern girl, at school in the North when herengagement to some other man was terminated because it was discovered that sheand her two sisters were octoroons. See page 37.

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WIRELESS FROM MARS

The wireless telegraph operator merely took down the words as they came, withno idea of their origin, or for whom they were intended. Some previous understandingdoubtless had been made as to a future communication which was now radiating tostations other than the one intended,

And this was the message:The planet you call Mars is a billion years old, of your length of years. About a

hundred million years ago we had passed through all the monkey stages of developmentthat earth folks are still experiencing, and began to see that our mountains were washingdown, our seas were drying up, and that sandy deserts were not only spreading over the

planetary surface, but rains were ceasing, the atmosphere was thinning and vegetationwas scarcer and more difficult to cultivate.

Many contending nations killed each other off, however, before the survivorswould listen to astronomers, geologists and other scientists as to what should be done to

prolong the lives of the miserable few who remained scattered over the surface wherever an oasis permitted existence. Even then false teachers misled the people for their ownends, as your politicians and sovereigns do with you.

Finally a remnant of survivors began a co-operative system of engineeringexpedients to widen the oases upon which they lived, the seas having by this time entirelydisappeared, the hills being flattened, and the extremes of alternating temperatures killingoff everything animate, whether plant or animal, save in a few green spots here and there;and in only one of these was there any intelligent plan for bettering conditions; the fittestto survive in the other places up to that time being those exerting the most fraud or force.But nature could not be controlled by such means, and when it was found out that
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intelligence had increased possibilities in the one spot of expanding cultivation, it wassuggested that an expedition should set out to wrest the place from its inhabitants andenslave them so the conquerors could enjoy the new land without working themselves.

But only a few families reached the destination, and they were in a sorrycondition appealing for help to those they meant to injure, as repentant miscreants do, till

the next chance they have for mischief.By ages of training the owners of the last farms and factories were so differentfrom the race that had perished, the remnant of the portion which had taken refuge withthe intelligent workers became a serious problem to the good community. The old planwould have been to slay them; isolate them by jailing or banish them; but recognizingtheir common origin from remote monkeydom and being unable to transport them toearth, where they would soon be riding in automobiles about Newport, buying uplegislatures and as New York bankers duping weak minded secretaries of the treasuryinto handling over the national billions for gambling purposes. So the martians took upthe burden and started in for conversion, knowing that thousands of years must pass

before results were apparent. And a big thorn in the social body was this pariah set, for

eternally were they cooking up schemes for turmoil, wreckage, self aggrandizement, andto subvert all plans of the community upon whose hospitality they lived. Eventually,however, the malcontents grew up to the standards of the others and became more liketheir hosts, with reversions here and there in hospitals and asylums.

Through dire necessity the planet was worked over into canal systems to bring thewater from the poles as the ice melted, guiding it to the hot equator whence it wasreturned by parallel canals to melt more snow and to provide for navigation and irrigationof widening oases with their vegetation.

In northern summer time the polar ice and snow partly melted flowed southward,even beyond the equator. In the northern winter the south pole furnished water to thesouthern set of canals connecting with the north system, the heated equator water warming the temperate regions. The white spots above the equator are lagoons for shunted ice to remain till melted and returned to the canals as water. Cold water runsfrom poles to equator and beyond and back again in other canals as warmed water,accounting for the doubling of canals so puzzling to you earthly observers.

We have engineering methods here you could not understand, as you have notadvanced in physics and chemistry enough to comprehend them. We are also vastlystronger than the earth people, not only bodily but mentally, so that we know all that youdo and more you are incapable of knowing, though the entire secret lies in what a teacher told you a couple of thousand years ago, whose words you repeat as the parrot does, withno meaning conveyed to most of your brains, with no actual following of what he gaveup His life to teach, for you slew Him and still persecute His real followers, heapingwealth upon the organizations that pretend reverence for His name and memory, whilemocking His teachings.

We people of Mars are of one mind, we see the truth as in a few million years youwill be able to do, and we know of no wealthy class, no wretchedly poor such as youhave, no rulers who while claiming to be public servants rob and enslave you.

We are happy with every breath we draw of the attenuated air we still breathe, butnow the time is approaching when the air being all used up, the water vanished from the

planet, life as we now live it will have ceased, to be followed by some foreword step in


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the evolution of the universe, inevitable and best for all of us, yourselves as well as usand the other planetarians in this solar system, all of us but a crop in the universal ocean.

Your world will pass through the same experiences, for you are younger than weare, having been cast off from the sun much later than was Mars.

You will find that vicissitudes are your best friends and instructors that working

together for the common welfare will give you the only heaven you can have on earth;that until you pass your monkey rapacity, vanity and treachery you will not even knowthat you have a soul.

As the laws of nature could not be juggled with there ceased to be use for theother professions than the medical in charge of laboratories and hospitals, and theengineering to superintend vast public works. The planet being one vast system of unitedco-operative workings.

1909By Shobal Vail Clevenger (1843-1920)

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Name: Shobal Vail ClevengerBirth - Death: 1843-1920Source Citation: Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and Americanauthors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (AlliSUP) Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Six volumes. Edited byJames Grant Wilson and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888- 1889.(ApCAB) Biographical Index to American Science. The seventeenth century to1920. Compiled by Clark A. Elliott. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. (BiInAmS) A Dictionary of American Authors. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. By Oscar Fay Adams. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904. Biographies are found in the'Dictionary of American Authors' section which begins on page 1 and in the 'Supplement'which begins on page 441. (DcAmAu) Dictionary of American Biography.Volumes 1-20. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936. (DcAmB) Dictionary of American Medical Biography. Lives of eminent physicians of the UnitedStates and Canada, from the earliest times. By Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1928. (DcAmMeBi) A Dictionary of NorthAmerican Authors Deceased before 1950. Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto:Ryerson Press, 1951. (DcNAA) The National Cyclopaedia of American
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Biography. Volume 5. New York: James T. White & Co., 1891. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 5) The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Brief biographies of authors, administrators, clergymen,commanders, editors, engineers, jurists, merchants, officials, philanthropists, scientists,statesmen, and others who are making American history. 10 volumes. Edited by Rossiter

Johnson. Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904. (TwCBDA) Who Was Who inAmerica. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Volume 4, 1961-1968. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1968. (WhAm 4)

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