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| 27 | 666 | Had there View more quotes about ever">ever been such, truly? If so, were there still such? And if there were such, had they any interest or concern with human beings? And the facts of the world, as any set of facts, she knew, might be susceptible to a variety of plausible explanations. |
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| 27 | 663 | Here Mirus regarded Ellen, and she looked away, frightened. |
| 27 | 664 | She did not wish to be beaten for looking too boldly into the eyes of a master. |
| 27 | 665 | She recalled that he had, in the house on Earth, recounted certain views pertaining to unusual alien beings, perhaps what were now being spoken of as "Priest-Kings". |
| 27 | 666 | Had there ever been such, truly? If so, were there still such? And if there were such, had they any interest or concern with human beings? And the facts of the world, as any set of facts, she knew, might be susceptible to a variety of plausible explanations. |
| 27 | 667 | Indeed, the hypothesis of Priest-Kings did not seem necessary. |
| 27 | 668 | Perhaps other aliens had brought some humans to this world, and then departed. |
| 27 | 669 | Perhaps an ancient technological civilization on Earth had colonized this world, before slipping unnoticed, with its devices, perhaps intentionally, from the pages of history. |