Goodwin—can you imagine yourself in another world, alien, unfamiliar, a world of terror, whose unknown joy is its greatest terror of all; you all alone there, a stranger!
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Botanist Dr. Walter Goodwin hears a haunted colleague's account of a glowing, living light that rises from a moonlit pool in the ruins of a Pacific island and carries people away. With a cheerful Irish airman and a grieving Norwegian sailor, he sets out to find its source and descends into a vast hidden world beneath the earth, ruled by an ancient people and the dazzling being they serve.
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I found this exceedingly interesting, because it had long been my theory—to put the matter in the shape of a geometrical formula—that the real attractiveness of gods to man increases uniformly according to the square of their distance.
If you're in love, love to the limit; and if you hate, why hate like the devil and if it's a fight you're in, get where it's hottest and fight like hell—if you don't life's not worth the living.
And don't think I have any idea that the phenomenon is supernatural in the sense spiritualists and table turners have given that word. I do think it is supernormal; energized by a force unknown to modern science—but that doesn't mean I think it outside the…
What is our science against—that? Or against the science of whatever devils that made it—or made the way for it to enter this world of ours?
You scientific people build up whole philosophies on the basis of things you never saw, and you scoff at people who believe in other things that you think they never saw and that don't come under what you label scientific.