There used to be things on this earth pursuing their own business, so to speak. They weren’t ministering spirits sent to help fallen humanity, but neither were they enemies preying upon us. Even in St. Paul one gets glimpses of a population that won’t exactly fit into our two columns of angels and devils. And if you go back further . . . all the gods, elves, dwarfs, water-people, fate, longaevi. You and I know too much to think they are just illusions.” “You think there are things like that?” “I think there were. I think there was room for them then, but the universe has come more to a point.
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What if they were a variety of intelligent life that faded before the advent of man? Life, in its way, bursting and blossoming and fractaling every possible form. But then conditions following the great floods and earth changes 'weeded' out the less fit, and homo sapiens emerged as the most flexible evolution. Others endured for a little.while, but faded away?
Why the lesser intelligents that were more than dogs died out isnt surprising, like pre-sapient apes, or predators, are frightening to man.
