To that extent they belonged to the first group. These things were not animals-to that extent one had to classify them with the second group but they had some kind of material vehicle whose presence could (in principle) be scientifically verified. But the very moment we are compelled to recognise a creature in either class as real, the distinction begins to get blurred: and when it is a creature like an eldil the distinction vanishes altogether. In quite a different mood we let our minds loose on the possibility of angels, ghosts, fairies, and the like. Wells' Martians (very unlike the real Malacandrians, by the bye), or his Selenites. We tend to think about non-human intelligences in two distinct categories which we label "scientific" and "supernatural" respectively. The truth was that all I heard about them served to connect two things which one's mind tends to keep separate, and that connecting gave one sort of a shock. It was something more than a prudent desire to avoid creatures alien in kind, very powerful, and very intelligent. “I am not sure whether I can make you understand it.
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