Edgar Jepson

“ He only said, twice, "Pan is not dead."
Then we went into the study. The alienist looked at the statue of Pan which still lay along the floor; for it would have needed four or five men to set it up; and I had been too busy to see to it. He asked if he might see its face. I uncovered it; and when he had come to the end of expressing his admiration of it, he talked to me about Woodfell. He told me that I must entertain no hope whatever of his recovery; that it was only possible that his mind would return just before he died; that it was improbable that he would live very long. ”

“ Pamela and I read and re-read this record, and we have discussed it many times. In the end we have made up our minds that some day I shall write out of the earlier volumes, the story of Woodfell's wanderings and discoveries—at any rate in ethnology, folk-lore, and comparative religion. But about the fourth volume we differ. We are agreed, indeed, that it would be wrong that such an admirable monument of human endeavor should be wasted; we are agreed that nothing will ever induce us to essay the forbidden things our selves ”

“ Then he came to the conclusion that the truth was most likely to be found in the wilder parts of the world among men unsophisticated; with minds unspoiled by civilization, in closer touch with the very heart of Nature. ”

“ In this later one human sacrifice is to be substituted for the sacrifice of the lamb. From his recorded com plaint, immediately before it, that the seven rites had only released the lower and less powerful creatures of the Abyss—he declares that this was no illusion, and that Marks alone was doubtful—and from his complaint that there were no signs that they were advancing any further, I believe that he would have celebrated this other rite of Moloch, had he not turned aside to try the effect of the introduction of the feminine element. ”