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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: germs of our life-cycle as those germs are behind ourselves. Spans
of thousands of millions of years, and linkages to other galaxies
and universes, were freely spoken of. Indeed, there was no such
thing as time in its humanly accepted sense.
But most of the
tales and impressions concerned a relatively late race, of a queer
and intricate shape, resembling no life-form known to science,
which had lived till only fifty million years before the advent
of man. This, they indicated, was the greatest race of all because
it alone had conquered the secret of time.
It had learned all
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