pitch.

"Always, as the Ray would cross above me, there would be a
stoppage of the emanations from the gorgers, a sinking to the
bottom, and a rising again. Also there were Shadows,
sinister, flowing grey forms, that preyed about the rocky
bottom. These were more felt by me than heard or seen, and
instilled more deadly fear than the larger Shadows that
passed above. The drama of the feeding seemed doomed to go on
and on forever. Repletion would never have come to the
Gorgers. Only Fear broke the spell.

"I recall a last glimpse of that ghost-life of the depths.
About the rocks, the long snakelike stems and feelers were
extended, and the luring decoys waved and glowed again at the
ends of the stalks. With the cessation of the feeding, began
the vaster, unquenchable feeding of the engulfing plants. It
was steady, monotonous, inexhaustible--the winking and waving
of the blue-green glows, the clustering of the senseless
prey, a sudden extinguishing of the light, devouring--then
the nodding gleam again. No mercy, no feeling, no reason
existed in this ghost-region of bleached and bloodless
things. The law was the law of Fear and Gluttony. There was a
thrall to the whole drama which I am powerless to express.

"... The embryo in the womb eats and assimilates, all
unconscious. With life there is movement. The first movement
takes the form of sucking-in that which prolongs life. Then
there is the driving forward by Fear from without. Low life
is a vibration between Fear and Gluttony. In every movement
is the gain of power to make another movement. That is the
Law of life.

"I opened my eyes. The wan grey light of morning was shining
In my face. I felt weak and unrested. There were puddles of
water on the foot of the bed. The blankets lay heavily about
my limbs, and circulation was hardly sufficient to hold
consciousness. The effects of the dream oppressed me the rest
of that day and for long afterward."

FOOTNOTES:

[3] H. A. Sturtzel.

31

THE HILL ROCKS

Our tendency is to return to the pioneers for inspiration.... I was
thinking this morning how in all our studies we had passed quickly over
the intellectualists, the simplifiers, the synthesisers and
explainers--back to the sources of philosophy and sanctity. It is there
that we find the