of "miracles" and scarcely give them a second thought, while
a hundred years ago their perpetrators would have been
destroyed as witches.

Far be it for me, or anyone else, to say that the main
transposition used in "Manape the Mighty" is absurd and
impossible. For while you, or I, may shrug shoulders and
dismiss even the thought of it as being the dream of a
madman, somebody, in some laboratory somewhere, may already
have successfully managed it. So given the premise that the
thing may be possible, I've sort of let myself go on this
idea, and a whole new train of thought has been opened up, a
whole new vista of astounding things in the realm of Science
Fiction. In parenthesis, I must thank you for getting me
started on the thing, for had you not suggested the idea
from the throne-like fortress of your editorial chair,
"Manape" might never have been born. I confess that I would
perhaps have been afraid of it, both because of the
possibility of the charge of following in the footsteps of
the internationally famous Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of
re-vamping the incomparable Poe tale, "Murders in the Rue
Morgue."

But, even so, both are interesting to dally with.

Given the premise that the brain transference is possible,
what would happen:

(1) If the brain of a terrible criminal were transferred to
the skull pan of an unusually mighty ape--and the ape
transplanted from his arboreal home in Africa to the streets
of London, Paris or New York whence the criminal whose brain
he has originated? Suppose his man's brain harbored thoughts
of vengeance on enemies, and he now possesses the might of
the great ape to carry out his vengeance?

(2) If Barter somehow escaped destruction at the hands of
the apes in "Manape the Mighty," and continued with his work
of brain transference--building up a mighty army of great
apes with the idea of avenging himself on civilization for
wrongs real and fancied? Apes with broadswords and chained
mail, with steel helmets on their heads--men's brains,
savages' brains, perhaps, as their guiding intelligence--and
the tenacity of apes when mortally wounded? Suppose they
swept over Africa like a cloud of locusts? Or is this too
feeble a simile? Suppose, Africa, to be laid waste by them,
led