ene of the happiest hours of my life in which my coeternal companion,
incased in the flesh of a real man, plighted his everlasting love and
devotion to me. And by a simple and intelligent law of nature I have
been held a captive in this room through countless generations to
witness the transformation and return of that faithful comrade to
release my soul from captivity. And now this room shall be my mortal
sepulcher.

"Although I should like, ever so much, to go forth and devote many years
to teaching the Apeman the glorious principles of Natural Law as
prescribed by my beloved countrymen, yet it is not within my power to do
so.

"Owing to the constant change in the chemical composition of the
atmosphere, and the vast difference in its present arrangement and that
of four thousand two hundred years ago, it would be impossible for me to
live five minutes outside of this chamber. In fact I have noticed that
the supply of air, which must have been hermetically sealed within this
vault at the time of the catastrophe, has been gradually escaping by way
of the hole through which you forced a passageway. Hence within a very
short time my life will have oozed away for the want of proper stimulus.
Then again, the period in which the particles of this human frame should
naturally cling together has long since expired, and should I but expose
myself to the elements now existing on the exterior of this place, I
should no doubt, crumble into dust and be blown away with the winds.
Notwithstanding nature compels the mutability of all things, its laws
however remain unchangeable, and as the time has passed and the
conditions altered since I should have lived my natural life, this
material of which I am now composed must soon collapse, its parts
disintegrate and return to the elements from whence they came.

"But my soul shall continue to live, and the same law which brought you
back here to me will also bring our souls together many times and in
different forms during eternity. And as you now possess the strength,
intelligence and opportunity, it is your sacred duty to go forth and
teach Apemen to love one another and practice kindness toward all living
things, for you know not in what shape I may return. As you would be
kind to me now, so must you treat all of nature's creatures. And
remember, that the soul you so ardently worship now and so reverently
loved over four thousand years ago, cannot return in a perfect form if
there are