Chalmers, a man of mysticism but also of science, sends his mind back to the origin of the
Earth and beyond where beings he calls the Hounds detect him and pursue him back to the
present.
“Then you do not entirely despise science.”
“Of course not,” he affirmed. “I
merely distrust the scientific positivism of the past fifty years, the positivism of
Haeckel and Darwin and of Mr. Bertrand Russell. I believe that biology has failed
pitifully to explain the mystery of man’s origin and destiny.
DEBUT
“The Hounds of Tindalos,” in Weird Tales,March 1929.
VARIANTS
Debut. “The Hounds of Tindalos,” in Weird Tales,March 1929.
“Then you do not entirely despise science.”
1 English variant