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Updated: May 27, 2025
In the first place, let's take religion. In tribal cultures, religion is uh animistic, I think the word is." Yoritomo nodded silently. "There are spirits everywhere," Scanton went on. "That sort of belief, it seems to me, would grow up in any race that had imagination, and the Nipes must have plenty of that, or they wouldn't have the technology they do have." "Very good. Very good.
Apparently intelligent animals, but animals never the less. How can this be? "Ha! Says the Nipe to himself. These animals must be ruled over by Real People. It is the only explanation. Not so?" "Colonel Mannheim mentioned that. Are you implying that the Nipe thinks that there are other Nipes around, running the world from secret hideouts, like the Fu Manchu novel?" "Not quite.
"'How did you kill it, Papa?" "'I walked up to it, bashed it on the noggin, and it died. That is the way to kill tigers." Yoritomo smiled. "It is also a good way to kill Nipes. Eh?" He took the towel and wiped Stanton's brow again. "The error," he continued, "was made when Papa Nipe generalized from one tiger to all tigers.
But what evidence have you that this technology was not given them by some other race?" "I hadn't thought of that." Stanton stared into space for a moment, then nodded his head. "Of course. It would take too long for another race to teach it to them; it wouldn't be worth the trouble unless this hypothetical other race killed off all the adult Nipes and started the little ones off fresh.
But beliefs in ghosts or demons or angels or life after death aren't disprovable. So, as a race increases its knowledge of the physical world, its religion tends to become more and more spiritual." "Agreed. Yes. But how do you link this with ritual-taboo?" "Well, once a belief gains a foothold, it's hard to wipe it out, even among humans. Among Nipes, it would be well-nigh impossible.
The weight of the girls, divided between four strong men, was a mere trifle, and they now made much more rapid progress than they had before, and in three quarters of an hour arrived at Nipes. As they got to the little town, Bertha and Anna got out and walked, so as to attract as little attention as possible among the negroes in the streets.
I don't suppose the people ashore know that we have a native boat with us. If they did, they would be sure that it came from Nipes, and it might set up a feud and cost them their lives, especially as that Obi scoundrel is concerned in the affair." Then he moved away to George Lechmere. "Don't say a word about that fellow Carthew," he said.
"The Nipe race must, of necessity, have had some similar ritualistic tests or they would not have become what they are. And we have already agreed that, once the Nipes adopted something of that kind, it remained with them, not so? Yes. "Also, it is extremely unlikely that the Nipe civilisation if such it can be called has any geriatric problem.
At any rate the country will be open, and we shall be able to keep in a solid body, and I have no doubt that we shall be able to beat them off." "Could we not go down to the shore, and get a boat somewhere, and row to the yacht?" "Yes, we might manage that, perhaps. That is a capital idea, Bertha. There is a place called Nipes, twelve or fourteen miles east of our inlet.
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