"Through the control of communications in the American Revolution, the Southern party was victorious and the negroes won complete control of rail traffic, so that no important train was allowed to start without their representative. An incidental result of the conflict was the secession of England from the Union; she declared neutrality between the factions and solved her traffic problems by constructing miniature railways which could be managed by persons of average ability and color."

The above quotation is taken from the winning essay in the prize essay competition conducted by the Union. It was written by Idris Deane Jones 1G., of Oxford, England. Jones is a tutor at Merton College, Oxford, and is now studying at the University on a leave of absence. The prize-winning essay is printed herewith.

The following article, entitled "American Aboriginal Documents," is a review of the official report of the Abyssinlan University's excavations which have been recently carried on at Cambridge, Newhaven, and Princeton, in North America. Ruins have been found which are believed to date back to the year 2000 A.D., or even earlier.

Undoubtedly there is much in this Report that is startling and possibly painful to orthodox believers in traditional cosmology; and yet it cannot be too often emphasized that the readjustment of some of the incidental tenets of our religion to meet the progress of modern science need not, and does not impair the fundamental structure of our faith. The only iconoclastic result of this expedition will be to destroy permanently the influence of those pompous and inaccurate historiasters of the last century who have falsified the sequence and meaning of past events by their lack of scientific method, their reliance on traditional literature and their wilful neglect of contemporary documents and archaeological evidence. Their day, or rather, their night is over; for the literary dilletante cannot face the pure light of historical truth which emanates from this epoch-making report.

Newhaven Was Former Place of Rest

The investigations were carried out on the East coast of North America by three parties. The most northerly site explored is Cambridge, an amorphous section of the large city of Greater Dublin; Newhaven lies some distance to the South in a slightly less intolerable climate, while the small settlement of Princeton, (which at first seemed to provide the most promising material but subsequently proved of little interest), is the most southerly point reached by the expedition. Apparently this last site, planned on most attractive lines, was not permanently inhabited by scholars, but was used as a place of rest. There is, however, some geological evidence which points to the existence of a large training school of physical culture in connection with the prevalent totalistic religion (see Report under Bunker, Tiger). This is an interesting example of the new light shed on the social history of Neotribal man by the thorough researches of the best critical brains of today; but this short review can only indicate those results which will necessitate a sweeping revision of our views on outstanding problems of American history. They affect three distinct periods:--

1) the Pilgrim's Progress. i. e., the discovery of America by the Irish saint Columba in 1492.

2) the American Revolution, or the Civil War.

3) the End of the World, or the Total Eclipse) (contemporary names given to the great drought of 1925 which caused the breakdown of American civilization).

Architecture Shows Early Culture

The disposal of the Columba myth illustrates admirably the methods of the expert archaeologists and the ineluctable force of their deductions. They examined in detail the large collegiate buildings (probably monastic) of Newhaven and Cambridge and compared them with similar institutions in or near Europe. It had been hitherto assumed that this phase of American architecture was a product of the Catholic revival of the twentieth century, but such hasty conclusions must now be discarded, for the magnificent Gothic ruins at Newhaven indubitably attest the existence of a flourishing scholastic culture as early as the first years of the fifteenth century. Henceforth we must antedate the permanent colonization of the so-called New World by at least a hundred years, unless we blind ourselves to such minute and convincing proofs as these.

A general survey should convince any intelligent person, apart from the judgment of experts, that these buildings could never have been a late copy made in the twentieth-century manner of servile imitation, for they reveal a mixture of styles and experiments which show a genuine creative spirit despite an obvious lack of technical knowledge.

Mediaeval Guildsmen Were Pioneers

This ratio of art and mechanics is exactly reversed in later American architecture. No man in his right senses could affirm that an Americanising architect allowed the interior measurements of the rooms to show such discrepancies, and the buttresses and walls to reduce the windows to such inadequate dimensions. And so the mediaeval guildsmen of Newhaven will henceforward take their place in history as true pioneers, who built rather by inspiration than by contract; and their work will be another proof of the triumph of spirit over matter, worthy to rank with Egyptian Karnak and our own Gimp. For five centuries countless generations of poor scholars wore down the hollowed steps from their pristine rectangularity and looked out upon the Arctic winter from their dim cells, while fierce storms shattered the leaded casements and necessitated hurried and unskilful repairs by the numb hands of the student plumbers.

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